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The SR-71 Blackbird’s shape gets the credit, but its two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines did the work: a compressor bleed-bypass that turned a...
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The SR-71 Blackbird’s shape gets the credit, but its two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines did the work: a compressor bleed-bypass that turned a...
The SR-71 Blackbird leaked JP-7 on the runway by design, and the one at the Smithsonian still does. But pilot Col. Richard Graham says...
“To be a successful soldier, you must know history.” Patton wrote it to his son entering West Point, and he lived it from Syracuse...
NASA’s 12-foot, 3,300-pound X-43A dropped from a B-52, rode a Pegasus booster, lit a scramjet, and hit Mach 9.64 at 110,000 feet on November...
The YF-118G Bird of Prey was a stealth jet built at Area 51 from spare parts: King Air landing gear, a Harrier ejection seat,...
A B-2 Spirit carried an LRASM from Whiteman to Guam and, on June 27, 2026, fired it from inside its bomb bay at USS...
The first F-15J rolled out in St. Louis on June 4, 1980, with its nuclear wiring removed and American jammers withheld. Mitsubishi built the...
Canada has the world's longest coastline and four secondhand Victoria-class subs designed in the 1980s. In 2023 only HMCS Windsor went to sea, for...
The only time a fighter has killed a satellite: Sept. 13, 1985, an F-15 Eagle pulled a 3.8g zoom climb past 38,000 feet at...
From 1999 to 2019 the Secret Service carried it, in .357 SIG, with a DAK trigger that gave the same pull on every shot....