Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
For more than a decade, America's X-37B spaceplane has quietly circled the Earth for months, even years, at a time, running classified experiments that...
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For more than a decade, America's X-37B spaceplane has quietly circled the Earth for months, even years, at a time, running classified experiments that...
SpaceX exists to put humans on Mars, so its shift toward the Moon looks like an admission that the Mars dream has stalled. It...
America won the Moon race in 1969, then mothballed the rockets that got it there, leaving only disassembled Saturn Vs in museums. Now it...
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...