Aerospace & Defense
The X-62A VISTA first flew in April 1992 as the NF-16D, a General Dynamics and Calspan variable-stability testbed. Thirty-four years later the same airframe...
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The X-62A VISTA first flew in April 1992 as the NF-16D, a General Dynamics and Calspan variable-stability testbed. Thirty-four years later the same airframe...
USS Pennsylvania entered service with twelve 14-inch guns, 34,000 horsepower and a completed cost near $15 million. The battleship served through two world wars,...
Built for low-altitude nuclear attack, the B-1B became a precision bomber, close-air-support platform and long-range anti-ship missile carrier. New external pylons, digital cockpit systems...
The military aircraft boneyard outside Tucson, officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, covers 2,600 acres and normally holds about 3,200 aircraft, 6,100...
USS Washington opened fire on the Japanese battleship Kirishima from 8,400 yards during the night of November 14–15, 1942, close enough for radar-directed 16-inch...
Britain spent £11,530,503 building HMS Vanguard, a figure that excluded her main guns, whose mountings had been built for the World War I battlecruisers...
The 1978 CVV medium carrier displaced 62,500 tons and was meant to carry as many as 65 aircraft. The Carter administration asked $1.6 billion...
Russia expected the Su-57 Felon to anchor a large fifth-generation air force and later ordered 76 by 2028. Sixteen years after the prototype flew,...
USS United States was designed to launch nuclear-capable bombers from a 82,000-ton flush-deck carrier. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled the $189 million ship five...
USS Saratoga cost $209.7 million, displaced 81,101 tons and carried up to 100 aircraft before fighting in Vietnam and Desert Storm.
USS Alabama cost about $80 million, displaced roughly 45,000 tons, carried nine 16-inch guns and earned nine World War II battle stars.