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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...
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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,...
Key Points and Summary: She is 51 years old. She has fought in four wars. Her keel was laid down during the Nixon administration....
“We built the best submarine ever, and now we can’t replace it. The U.S. Navy has no real solution for this.” That’s how a...
The Zumwalt-Class was supposed to be the future of the surface fleet. The Navy planned to build 32. It got three. Naval officials get...
The SSN(X) Delays Only Hurt the U.S. Navy: If I had to make an educated guess, there is a chart inside the Pentagon that...
Cold War U.S. Navy analysts, watching the Soviets build something extraordinary at the Sudomekh shipyard in Leningrad through the 1960s and 1970s, reached a...