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This week a 41-year-old free agent is deciding which team gets him for an unprecedented 24th season, and a third of the league is...
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This week a 41-year-old free agent is deciding which team gets him for an unprecedented 24th season, and a third of the league is...
Nearly every "best tank" ranking crowns the American M1 Abrams, and with good reason, but that buries a more interesting question: what is the...
The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship guns ever made. Yet the American...
The question isn't why warships catch fire. Ships are floating industrial plants packed with fuel, power, and munitions. The real question is why the...
Six minutes after separating from its upper stage, China’s Long March 10B descended toward a recovery ship and caught four steel cables with hooks...
At the end of its life, the fastest aircraft ever built was converted into a truck. From 1997 to 1998, NASA flew an SR-71...
The story racing around the internet says the Pentagon just launched a $627 million laser program. The reality is bigger and more interesting. On...
"An army marches on its stomach" is the most quoted line in military logistics, hung on Napoleon on a thousand mugs and staff-college slides....
On July 9, Russia's state defense conglomerate Rostec announced fresh deliveries of Su-30SM2 fighters and Su-34 fighter-bombers, complete with factory-test boilerplate and a glowing...
Just over four light-years away, the Alpha Centauri system holds the closest worlds beyond our own that might support life. One, Proxima Centauri b,...