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The Astute-class program failed before a single plate was cut. Submarine orders at Barrow dried up through the 1990s, the design offices emptied, and...
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The Astute-class program failed before a single plate was cut. Submarine orders at Barrow dried up through the 1990s, the design offices emptied, and...
Four boats is the minimum the Royal Navy's nuclear deterrence mission allows: one on patrol, one working up or returning, one in short maintenance,...
Across its life the SR-71 Blackbird program flew 53,490 hours over 17,300 sorties, including 11,675 hours above Mach 3 — a record of production...
The SR-71 Blackbird carried two consumables that each capped the mission. Liquid nitrogen in Dewar flasks in the nose wheel well, and triethylborane —...
For the SR-71 Blackbird, Corning spent years and millions developing solid quartz windows because ordinary glass would have distorted. The wing skin was deliberately...
The SR-71 Blackbird did not dodge missiles so much as it made the intercept mathematically unaffordable, arriving and departing faster than the defense could...
No tanker on earth could carry JP-7, so the Air Force built one for the SR-71 Blackbird. The KC-135Q had isolated tanks and separate...
The Air Force never advertised. A board met at Beale roughly every six months to fill seats opening seven to nine months later, working...
A hypervelocity projectile is estimated at $25,000 to $85,000. A single Harpoon costs $1,400,000, and a Tomahawk the same or more. If a warship...
Cadmium-plated steel tools embrittled titanium on contact, so Lockheed had to build new tools out of titanium for the SR-71 Blackbird. Parts washed in...