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Canada was supposed to buy 88 F-35 stealth fighters from the United States. Now the deal is in limbo: frustrated with President Trump's tariffs...
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Canada was supposed to buy 88 F-35 stealth fighters from the United States. Now the deal is in limbo: frustrated with President Trump's tariffs...
My best friend in the U.S. Army was a Special Forces officer with service in Iraq and Afghanistan. Once, we had a conversation about...
America's sixth-generation F-47 may be the most advanced fighter ever built, and could cost up to $300 million each. But in a war over...
In November 1988 the Soviet Union flew its own space shuttle. Buran reached orbit, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself completely on autopilot,...
Last week, the tried-and-true USS Nimitz aircraft carrier completed an important mission. The historic flat-top had been assigned to the Southern Command area of...
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...
Russia's Su-57 Felon was billed as a fifth-generation rival to the F-22 — but it's spent the Ukraine war launching missiles from the safety...
The F-22 Raptor is famous for its stealth, but its two Pratt & Whitney F119 engines are just as remarkable: 70,000 pounds of combined...
In the 1970s the Soviet Union set out to challenge American carriers with the Kiev-class — a hybrid "heavy aviation cruiser" bristling with anti-ship...
Before the SR-71 Blackbird ever flew, a Soviet aviation designer named Pavel Tsybin was already trying to build a spy plane to beat it...