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The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
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The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...
The Navy’s Middle East blockade line has backed hundreds of kilometers away from the Strait of Hormuz and into what looks like Pakistani waters...
In 1949 the Navy laid the keel of USS United States, a 65,000-ton supercarrier. Five days later Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled it in...
Tirpitz's "risk theory" was not a plan to defeat Britain but to make defeating Germany so costly that Britain would seek accommodation. It required...
The Royal Navy’s five Astute-class attack submarines were all tied up in June. Britain can work on a nuclear submarine only at Devonport or...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
The F-14 Tomcat was designed around a Pratt & Whitney F-401 engine that was not ready in time, so Grumman used the TF-30 from...
Between 1992 and 1999, Boeing’s Phantom Works flew a tailless, alien-looking stealth demonstrator at Area 51: the Bird of Prey. It used landing gear...
The F-22 Raptor is the most expensive fighter the US has ever bought, and the reason is arithmetic. The Air Force planned 750 jets,...