Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
For four decades Iran kept the world's last F-14 Tomcats flying under an embargo meant to ground them. In March, Israel said it finally...
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For four decades Iran kept the world's last F-14 Tomcats flying under an embargo meant to ground them. In March, Israel said it finally...
In 1942, the U.S. built an aircraft carrier in just over 20 months, then made two dozen more. Today a single shipyard builds every...
Japan doesn't build nuclear submarines. Instead it built the Soryu class — 12 quiet diesel-electric hunters for the waters around the home islands. The...
The F-4 Phantom was built to kill Soviet bombers at long range with missiles — so the Navy left off the gun. Then Vietnam...
Sweden didn't build the Gotland class to chase aircraft carriers across oceans. It built three small, quiet submarines for the Baltic — and in...
A film celebrating ten years of China's Y-20 transport slipped in something no other country has shown on official camera: a sixth-generation fighter refueling...
A decade after it surfaced, China's H-20 has no flying prototype and no production line. The reasons are industrial, not financial: an intercontinental flying...
The conventional wisdom says America's F-35 has finally surpassed the older F-22 Raptor — more sensors, constant upgrades, an information-warfare machine. But on the...
For three decades, the Sturgeon-class submarines were the U.S. Navy's quiet Cold War hunters, trailing Soviet missile boats and tapping their undersea cables in...
The F-22 Raptor is famous for stealth, speed, and air dominance, but keeping its low-observable coatings ready takes constant work. Official reports show that...