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More than 20,000 Aggies served in WWII, including 14,000 officers. On Dec. 19, 1944, Patton promised Eisenhower three divisions in 48 hours; on Dec....
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More than 20,000 Aggies served in WWII, including 14,000 officers. On Dec. 19, 1944, Patton promised Eisenhower three divisions in 48 hours; on Dec....
Twenty-nine years ago today, on September 25, 1997, Sukhoi's Su-47 Berkut made its first flight with wings swept forward instead of back. Carbon composites...
Northrop and McDonnell Douglas built the YF-23 around one bet: never be seen. It had a diamond wing, two splayed V-tails, no thrust-vectoring nozzles,...
The SAW is an open-bolt, gas-operated FN Minimi that fires 5.56mm at about 775 rounds per minute from belts or, in a pinch, a...
General Dynamics stretched the F-16's fuselage about 56 inches, removed its ventral fins, and swapped its wing for a cranked-arrow delta with no horizontal...
On paper, the Sierra II was a submarine hunter built to stalk America's most valuable boats in deep water and Arctic conditions, with a...
The F-14 was built to stop Soviet bombers and cruise missiles before they reached the carrier. A pilot and a radar intercept officer could...
Ruger replaced the Security-Six and Service-Six with the GP100 in 1985 and has barely needed to change it since. There's no sideplate: the frame...
Even the Germans who claimed "Raptor salad for lunch" conceded the F-22 dominates at long range. In their after-action report, Maj. Marco Gumbrecht said...
NASA built three X-43As under its Hyper-X program for about $230 million, and none was meant to be recovered. A B-52 carried each one...
The DF-26 alone could force U.S. carriers to operate thousands of miles offshore, where a carrier air wing can't strike without non-stealthy aerial refuelers...