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The SR-71 Blackbird’s Real Speed Limit Was 427°C at the Compressor Face — Pratt & Whitney Wouldn’t Guarantee the J58 Engines Past That Temperature...
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The SR-71 Blackbird’s Real Speed Limit Was 427°C at the Compressor Face — Pratt & Whitney Wouldn’t Guarantee the J58 Engines Past That Temperature...
General George Patton Built the American Tank Corps in WWI and Wrote the Doctrine for Massed Armor — Then Led the First U.S. Tank...
The Air Force’s F-47 Got $5 Billion — The Navy’s F/A-XX Nearly Died at $74 Million Before Congressional Appropriators Intervened The Navy’s F/A-XX sixth-generation...
The A-10 Is the Only Aircraft in History Designed Around Its Gun — A 30mm GAU-8 Avenger Gatling That Fires 3,900 Rounds Per Minute...
SR-71 Blackbird Pilot David Peters: ‘Very Few Missiles Could Make Up 36 or More Miles Per Minute’ The iconic SR-71 Blackbird was America’s spy...
The Spruance-Class Destroyer Was as Large as a WWII Cruiser — Congress Thought It Didn’t Look Scary Enough and Almost Killed the Program The...
The Type 004 Will Be Larger Than the USS Gerald R. Ford and Carry More Aircraft — China’s First Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Is Already...
The VZ-9AV Avrocar Was a 26.5-Foot Flying Disk Powered by Three Continental J69-T9 Turbojets With 927 Pounds of Thrust Each The Avrocar program was...
DF-21D, DF-26B, DF-17, and DF-27 — Inside China’s Four ‘Carrier Killer’ Missiles and Why None of Them Have Been Proven in Combat With the...
Northrop’s Tacit Blue Program And “The Whale” Stealth Plane History Has Forgotten About That We Got Up Close To The Tacit Blue program was...