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Summary and Key Points: On November 16, 2004, a twelve-foot unmanned NASA aircraft lit a scramjet with no moving parts and rode it to...
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Summary and Key Points: On November 16, 2004, a twelve-foot unmanned NASA aircraft lit a scramjet with no moving parts and rode it to...
Summary and Key Points: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was built to cruise at three times the speed of sound — so high and...
Summary and Key Points: The SR-71 Blackbird flew the Cold War’s most dangerous reconnaissance missions — over the Soviet periphery, North Vietnam and North...
One of the greatest joys of my life was back in 2004 when I literally got within 100 feet of USS Connecticut, an actual...
The Boeing EA-18G Growler is the most strategically important fighter in the U.S. Navy that almost nobody talks about—the only crewed tactical jammer in...
Summary and Key Points: While most of the U.S. Navy’s modernization portfolio is struggling, delayed, or stuck on a Pentagon slide, one platform is...
“The F-47 is the most important fighter the U.S. Air Force will ever field. We can’t mess this up. Any mistake or delay could...
A senior U.S. Navy official just delivered a brutal warning about the Pentagon’s most consequential August 2026 decision: failing to fund the F/A-XX sixth-generation...
On November 15, 1967, Air Force Major Michael J. Adams was killed when the third X-15 broke apart at Mach 3.93 and 65,000 feet...
F-15SE Silent Eagle: The Stealth F-15 Boeing Built And Nobody Bought: Back when I was the Editor of the Diplomat in the early 2010s,...