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Behind its Cold War neutrality, Sweden was quietly preparing to go nuclear. Saab designed the Saab 36 "Vargen," a Mach 2, delta-wing bomber built...
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Behind its Cold War neutrality, Sweden was quietly preparing to go nuclear. Saab designed the Saab 36 "Vargen," a Mach 2, delta-wing bomber built...
The MiG 1.44 was meant to be the Soviet Union's F-22 — a supercruising, internally-armed fighter to dominate 21st-century air combat. Instead it became...
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark wasn't a flawed fighter — it was fast, affordable, reliable, and easy to maintain, everything defense planners now say America...
The Air Force long treated the F-15EX Eagle II as a bridge to an all-stealth force. Now it has more than doubled the planned...
Europe's flagship joint fighter program, FCAS, has collapsed over a Franco-German feud. France's answer: pour its money into the Rafale F5, an upgrade so...
The best tank in the world right now isn't the most advanced — it's the cheap, 50-year-old Soviet T-72. The argument: modern war is...
The U.S. is pouring billions into a handful of exquisite warplanes — the $300-million F-47 and the $700-million-plus B-21 Raider. But this analysis argues...
Russia's T-14 Armata was hailed as the future of tank warfare. In Ukraine it's almost absent — too valuable to risk — while the...
The Su-25 Frogfoot — often called "Russia's A-10" — was built to fly low and slow over the front, absorbing fire to support troops....
The MiG-29K is a genuinely capable carrier fighter — fast, heavily armed, multirole. But its story is Russia's carrier problem in miniature: India, not...