Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
For the first time, China has released footage of its DF-17 hypersonic missile launching, filmed during a desert exercise simulating waves of strikes. Flying...
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For the first time, China has released footage of its DF-17 hypersonic missile launching, filmed during a desert exercise simulating waves of strikes. Flying...
Everyone is fixated on Mars. But there is a closer world, and a stranger idea. The surface of Venus is hot enough to melt...
Commissioned in 2009, the USS George H.W. Bush was the last Nimitz-class carrier the United States ever built, and she isn't quite like the...
NASA's path back to Mars in the 1990s was also its strangest. Instead of firing thrusters to set the spacecraft down gently, engineers wrapped...
Alpha Centauri sits roughly 4.37 light-years from Earth, making it the closest star system to our own. In astronomical terms, it may seem like...
In the summer of 1979 the United States dropped a 77-ton space station out of the sky and could not say where it would...
Germany still must address a readiness issue: large portions of the army are not considered fully combat-ready, with some readiness estimates for land forces...
The first spacecraft to land safely on Mars was Soviet, not American, and it did not survive. In December 1971 the Mars 3 lander...
Humanity has landed in the outer solar system exactly once: on Saturn's moon Titan, in January 2005, when a European probe named Huygens parachuted...
Iran keeps returning to the Strait of Hormuz because it works. As Andrew Latham argues, Tehran doesn't need to close the waterway, or even...