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America's F-47 sixth-generation fighter nearly died in 2024 over a $300-million-per-jet price tag. Now Boeing is building the first one in St. Louis against...
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America's F-47 sixth-generation fighter nearly died in 2024 over a $300-million-per-jet price tag. Now Boeing is building the first one in St. Louis against...
THAAD failed six consecutive intercept tests in the 1990s and became shorthand for missile-defense fantasy. Then it went 16-for-16 — and now it's stopping...
France's nuclear carrier took twelve years to build, lost her propeller in the Atlantic, and sailed six years on spares made for 1960s ships....
Macron named Europe's biggest-ever warship after de Gaulle's Free France and approved €10 billion to build her. The sovereignty and deterrence case is real...
France promised up to 20 Mirage 2000s; Ukraine got six at most, and flies roughly four. What that handful has done is the story:...
While the YF-23 fought for the Air Force contract, Northrop was drawing a carrier version to replace the F-14: folding wings, twin tails, canards,...
Drones killed 14,000 armored vehicles in Ukraine and revived the tank-obsolescence argument. The Army's answer reached the Detroit Auto Show in January: the M1E3...
In 1996 the Navy and DARPA designed a ship carrying 500 cruise missiles with 50 sailors for $450 million. Its champion died, the Navy...
After the A-12 died, Lockheed offered the Navy carrier-based stealth twice: first a marinized Nighthawk, then the heavily redesigned A/F-117X with folding wings, air-to-air...
Trump put a number on last night's strikes: 49 Tomahawks — roughly six months of production fired in one night. The Iran war has...