October 2026

Aerospace & Defense

100,000-Ton Wait: It Took 15 Long Years for the US Navy to Almost Get a New Ford-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier

After the first steel cut in 2011, the Navy finally took delivery of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-7) in August 2026....

Sean SpoontsOctober 5, 2026

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) sails in the Atlantic Ocean, Feb. 6, 2026. The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group is at sea as an integrated warfighting team. Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) is the Joint Force’s most complex integrated training event and prepares naval task forces for sustained high-end Joint and combined combat. Integrated naval training provides combatant commanders and America’s civilian leaders highly capable forces that deter adversaries, underpin American security and economic prosperity, and reassure Allies and partners. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class John R. Farren)

Aerospace & Defense

US Navy 100,000-Ton Nimitz-Class and Ford-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Have 1 Clear Weakness That Can’t Ever Be Fixed

Two Westinghouse A4W reactors sit deep inside a ship assembled around them, which is why refueling means dry-docking the carrier and cutting it open....

Harrison KassOctober 5, 2026

NASA SR-71 Blackbird Creative Commons NASA Photo

Aerospace & Defense

A Lockheed Mach 3.2 YF-12 Spy Plane Locked Onto a Target Drone From More Than 100 Miles Away and 14.2 Miles Below It, Then Killed It With a Missile Fired From 53 Miles. That Was 1966, and Only 3 of These Aircraft Were Ever Built.

Lockheed stripped the cameras out of a Blackbird, put a Hughes AN/ASG-18 fire control radar in the nose and three AIM-47 Falcons in internal...

Brandon WeichertOctober 5, 2026

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), right, and Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls (CG 62) sail in the South China Sea, Sept. 14, 2026. Frank E. Petersen Jr. is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Units assigned to 7th Fleet conduct continuous patrols to deter aggression, strengthen alliances and partnerships, and advance peace through strength. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Nathaly Cruz)

Aerospace & Defense

Iran’s Missiles and Drones Missed US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carriers. It Attacked the Base That Fed Them. Resupply for the USS Abraham Lincoln Moved 2,200 Miles to Diego Garcia, and the Food, Mail and Soap Had to Come That Far.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier sailed from San Diego on November 21, 2025 for a seven-month deployment and was extended twice. Her air...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 5, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Best Striker-Fired Trigger in America Is Not on a Glock or an M&P. It Is on a $649 Walther.

American Rifleman's test guns broke between 4 pounds 8 ounces and 5 pounds, and put 27 of 30 five-shot groups under two inches at...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 5, 2026

USS Wasp CV-18 Aircraft Carrier Creative Commons

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A destroyer that survived Utah Beach and a kamikaze bomb turned in front of an aircraft carrier at 24 knots off Newfoundland in 1952, after her executive officer said the turn would hit it, and was cut in half, killing 176, while the carrier was back at sea in 10 days

USS Hobson's executive officer objected that the maneuver would put her on a collision course with the aircraft carrier USS Wasp, lost the argument,...

Isaac SeitzOctober 4, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: 15.87 Ounces Loaded, a Glock 42 Weighs Less Than an Empty Glock 19, and 12 Years On It Is Still the Smallest Glock

The G42's locked breech makes it soft-shooting for its size, but the recoil spring is stout enough that Larry Vickers helped build an $18.95...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 4, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

A tank with an unmanned turret and an armored crew capsule was shown off in 2015, kept out of its own country’s war because cheap drones might kill it, and is now being redrawn around a 152mm gun with 40 rounds, 24 in the autoloader, and a drone on a tether

The 152mm idea dates to the Soviet Object 195, which never entered production, and it forces a turret redesign, more internal volume and a...

Brandon WeichertOctober 4, 2026

Uzi Submachine gun. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

Aerospace & Defense

I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: 1.5 Million Uzis Went to 90 Nations for $2 Billion, and It Can Fire 600 Rounds in Just 1 Minute

Gal borrowed the telescoping bolt and grip-fed magazine from the Czech Sa vz. 23, built it from stamped steel, and gave the IDF a...

Steve BalestrieriOctober 4, 2026

Aerospace & Defense

A 65,000-ton aircraft carrier that cost £6.2 billion and £96 million a year to keep defends itself with three Gatling guns that reach about two kilometers and nothing that fires farther, leans on destroyers its navy is short of, and keeps getting sunk in exercises

The 65,000-ton aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and her sister HMS Prince of Wales cost £96 million a year each to maintain, fly F-35Bs...

Brandon WeichertOctober 4, 2026

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Aerospace & Defense

100,000-Ton Wait: It Took 15 Long Years for the US Navy to Almost Get a New Ford-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier

Aerospace & Defense

US Navy 100,000-Ton Nimitz-Class and Ford-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers Have 1 Clear Weakness That Can’t Ever Be Fixed

Aerospace & Defense

A Lockheed Mach 3.2 YF-12 Spy Plane Locked Onto a Target Drone From More Than 100 Miles Away and 14.2 Miles Below It, Then Killed It With a Missile Fired From 53 Miles. That Was 1966, and Only 3 of These Aircraft Were Ever Built.

Aerospace & Defense

Iran’s Missiles and Drones Missed US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carriers. It Attacked the Base That Fed Them. Resupply for the USS Abraham Lincoln Moved 2,200 Miles to Diego Garcia, and the Food, Mail and Soap Had to Come That Far.

Aerospace & Defense

I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Best Striker-Fired Trigger in America Is Not on a Glock or an M&P. It Is on a $649 Walther.

Aerospace & Defense

A destroyer that survived Utah Beach and a kamikaze bomb turned in front of an aircraft carrier at 24 knots off Newfoundland in 1952, after her executive officer said the turn would hit it, and was cut in half, killing 176, while the carrier was back at sea in 10 days

Aerospace & Defense

I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: 15.87 Ounces Loaded, a Glock 42 Weighs Less Than an Empty Glock 19, and 12 Years On It Is Still the Smallest Glock

Aerospace & Defense

A tank with an unmanned turret and an armored crew capsule was shown off in 2015, kept out of its own country’s war because cheap drones might kill it, and is now being redrawn around a 152mm gun with 40 rounds, 24 in the autoloader, and a drone on a tether

Aerospace & Defense

I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: 1.5 Million Uzis Went to 90 Nations for $2 Billion, and It Can Fire 600 Rounds in Just 1 Minute

Aerospace & Defense

A 65,000-ton aircraft carrier that cost £6.2 billion and £96 million a year to keep defends itself with three Gatling guns that reach about two kilometers and nothing that fires farther, leans on destroyers its navy is short of, and keeps getting sunk in exercises

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