September 2026

Aerospace & Defense

China Has About 21 Type 039 Yuan-Class Attack Submarines, Each With 6 533mm Torpedo Tubes. They Do Not Have to Chase a US Navy Carrier Strike Group — They Can Sit in a Chokepoint and Wait for It.

China's Type 039A/B/C Yuan-class is a 3,600-ton diesel-electric attack submarine with air-independent propulsion, 6 533mm torpedo tubes, Yu-6 heavyweight torpedoes and YJ-18 anti-ship cruise...

Brandon WeichertSeptember 8, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

It Took the US Navy 4 Weeks to Deliberately Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier USS America in 2005. Iran Does Not Need to Sink a Carrier — It Only Needs to Stop 1 From Launching Aircraft.

When the US Navy scuttled the decommissioned carrier USS America in 2005 it took 4 weeks, with no crew aboard and nobody fighting the...

Brandon WeichertSeptember 8, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

The US Air Force Wanted to Retire All 162 A-10 Warthogs in 2026. Congress Wrote a Law Forcing It to Keep 126 of Them Flying Until 2033 and Named the Law After the Sound the Gun Makes.

The US Air Force wanted every remaining A-10 Warthog gone in the FY2026 budget cycle — all 162 of them, two years ahead of...

Brandon WeichertSeptember 8, 2026

U.S. Navy Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Portrait

Aerospace & Defense

Decades Later, Admiral Chester Nimitz Best US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

"Some of the best advice I've had comes from junior officers and enlisted men." Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz commanded more than 2,000,000 men and...

Stephen SilverSeptember 8, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Money Building YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.

Boeing paid for the YF-118G Bird of Prey out of its own pocket — roughly $67,000,000 — to prove that an all-aspect stealth aircraft...

Steve BalestrieriSeptember 8, 2026

A U.S. Air Force F-15EX Eagle II assigned to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, flies a training mission over southeast United States, March 23, 2026. The 96th Test Wing and 53rd Wing perform developmental and operational test series on the platform including next-generation survivability, radars, sensors and networking capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Blake Wiles)

Aerospace & Defense

Forget the F-35 Stealth Fighter: At 87,000,000,000 Operations Per Second, the US Air Force F-15EX Eagle II Is a Real Flying Supercomputer

The F-15EX Eagle II is not stealthy and the US Air Force bought it anyway. It flies at Mach 2.5 against the F-35's Mach...

Kris OsbornSeptember 8, 2026

An artist's conception of the X-43A Hypersonic Experimental Vehicle, or "Hyper-X" in flight. The X-43A was developed to flight test a dual-mode ramjet/scramjet propulsion system at speeds from Mach 7 up to Mach 10 (7 to 10 times the speed of sound, which varies with temperature and altitude).

Aerospace & Defense

NASA Spent About $230,000,000 Over 8 Years on the Mach 9.6 X-43A Hypersonic Scramjet. It Flew 3 Times, the First 1 Was Destroyed by Its Own Booster, and the Engine Ran for Roughly 11 Seconds.

NASA's Hyper-X program ran 8 years and cost roughly $230,000,000, and it produced exactly 3 flights of the X-43A. The first ended with the...

Caleb LarsonSeptember 8, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

General George Patton’s Quote on People Is Still the Greatest in US Army History 79 Years Later

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." General George S. Patton...

Isaac SeitzSeptember 8, 2026

Vega Space Probe 19FortyFive Photo From Smithsonian Taken on June 30 2026

Space and Technology

In June 1985 Russia Flew 2 Balloons Through the Sulfuric Acid Clouds of Venus. They Rode 150-Mile-an-Hour Winds for 46 Hours and 11,600 Kilometers, and No Balloon Has Flown on Another Planet Since.

In June 1985 the Soviet Union released 2 balloons into the clouds of Venus. Each was 3.4 meters across, hung a 7-kilogram gondola from...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 8, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Built 188 Lockheed S-3 Viking Aircraft to Hunt and Kill Soviet Submarines from Aircraft Carriers. Not 1 of Them Ever Sank a Submarine. They Destroyed Iraqi Missile Sites and Coastal Radars Instead.

Lockheed built 188 S-3 Vikings for one job: finding and killing Soviet submarines from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Soviet Union collapsed...

Christian D. OrrSeptember 8, 2026

19FortyFive

Aerospace & Defense

China Has About 21 Type 039 Yuan-Class Attack Submarines, Each With 6 533mm Torpedo Tubes. They Do Not Have to Chase a US Navy Carrier Strike Group — They Can Sit in a Chokepoint and Wait for It.

Aerospace & Defense

It Took the US Navy 4 Weeks to Deliberately Sink Its Own Aircraft Carrier USS America in 2005. Iran Does Not Need to Sink a Carrier — It Only Needs to Stop 1 From Launching Aircraft.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Air Force Wanted to Retire All 162 A-10 Warthogs in 2026. Congress Wrote a Law Forcing It to Keep 126 of Them Flying Until 2033 and Named the Law After the Sound the Gun Makes.

Aerospace & Defense

Decades Later, Admiral Chester Nimitz Best US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

Aerospace & Defense

Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Money Building YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.

Aerospace & Defense

Forget the F-35 Stealth Fighter: At 87,000,000,000 Operations Per Second, the US Air Force F-15EX Eagle II Is a Real Flying Supercomputer

Aerospace & Defense

NASA Spent About $230,000,000 Over 8 Years on the Mach 9.6 X-43A Hypersonic Scramjet. It Flew 3 Times, the First 1 Was Destroyed by Its Own Booster, and the Engine Ran for Roughly 11 Seconds.

Aerospace & Defense

General George Patton’s Quote on People Is Still the Greatest in US Army History 79 Years Later

Space and Technology

In June 1985 Russia Flew 2 Balloons Through the Sulfuric Acid Clouds of Venus. They Rode 150-Mile-an-Hour Winds for 46 Hours and 11,600 Kilometers, and No Balloon Has Flown on Another Planet Since.

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Built 188 Lockheed S-3 Viking Aircraft to Hunt and Kill Soviet Submarines from Aircraft Carriers. Not 1 of Them Ever Sank a Submarine. They Destroyed Iraqi Missile Sites and Coastal Radars Instead.

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