Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In the 1970s, Congress mocked the Navy's new Spruance-class destroyers as "empty hulls", warships the size of a light cruiser that went to sea...
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In the 1970s, Congress mocked the Navy's new Spruance-class destroyers as "empty hulls", warships the size of a light cruiser that went to sea...
USS Long Beach entered service as the world’s first nuclear-powered surface warship and sailed around the world without refueling. Decades later, the stripped, defueled...
For 18 months, everything the public knew about China's J-36 came from enthusiast photographs. Over the weekend, Beijing put the secretive tailless fighter on...
Six Marine Corps F-35Bs are flying with ballast bolted in where their radar should be, the program's chief confirmed to the Senate, because the...
The Air Force just switched on Flyer, a $20 million supercomputer at Wright-Patterson built to simulate the hypersonic flights that are too fast and...
Every other navy gave up on the nuclear-powered surface warship. Russia kept one. After a refit lasting more than two decades and costing billions,...
NASA's Genesis spacecraft did something no mission had done since Apollo. It flew out beyond the Moon, spent more than two years catching atoms...
Australia has test-fired its first domestically built GMLRS rockets, becoming the only country outside the United States to make them. But the rounds are...
When the Soviet Union sent two probes plunging into the atmosphere of Venus in December 1978, they carried an instrument named "Groza," the Russian...
In the 1980s Israel built a fighter to rival the American F-16, the Lavi, and it flew beautifully. It never entered service. Washington had...