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HIMARS: The MLRS Rocket Launcher Ukraine Needs to Right Russia? You Decide: My editor recently brought to my attention an article in The WarZone titled...
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HIMARS: The MLRS Rocket Launcher Ukraine Needs to Right Russia? You Decide: My editor recently brought to my attention an article in The WarZone titled...
Depending on who you ask, Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II is either (A) the fighter plane equivalent of the best thing to happen since...
Meet the Harpoon Missile: Merriam-Webster provides two definitions for the word hoary: (1) “gray or white with or as if with age;” and (2) “extremely...
Meet the Carl Gustaf: As I noted in previous articles on the Saab 35 Draken fighter plane, Saab 37 Viggen fighter, and A-36 bomber, Sweden’s...
Meet the Sig Sauer M17/M18 – As I noted in a recent article, the retirement of the Beretta 92FS, aka the M9, as the...
TF-X: Turkey’s Dream for a Stealth Fighter: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan seems to like playing both sides of the fence in his country’s relations...
The Grumman (now Northrup Grumman, most famous for being the manufacturer of the F-14 Tomcat) X-29 is one of the more obscure experimental aircraft...
The A-36: Sweden’s Would-Be A-Bomber – As I noted in my earlier articles on the Saab 37 Viggen (“Thunderbolt/Tufted Duck”) and Saab 35 Draken...
71 years after its invention, the Pistolet Makarovka (PM), better known to English-speaking gun enthusiasts as simply the Makarov Pistol, is still going strong....
While the SR-71 Blackbird remains the world’s fastest air-breathing aircraft, the rocket-powered X-15 has its own richly deserved place in the aviation history record...