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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
Rebuilding the Tu-160 line meant recovering things Russia had lost. Tupolev digitized design documentation that existed on paper, restored the vacuum welding needed for...
USS New Jersey fired in combat across four conflicts separated by forty years. She screened the fast carriers through the Pacific war, came out...
China had three carriers in commission at the end of July and, according to the Pentagon, wants nine by 2035. The hulls are the...
A penny does not sound like the price of an aircraft carrier, and it isn't. What the buyer acquired for a cent apiece when...
The Royal Navy's two aircraft carriers cost billions and displace 65,000 tons each. Aboard one of them, sailors spent months without dependable hot water...
The sticker price on an F-35A is $82.5 million, and it does not describe the aircraft. A flyaway figure is not a combat-worthy aircraft,...
A stray Zuni rocket, unstable bombs and bypassed safety procedures nearly destroyed USS Forrestal and killed 134 sailors off Vietnam.
The J-35A grew from a company-funded FC-31 demonstrator into the PLAAF’s second stealth fighter. Its publicly known performance may not match the F-22’s kinematics...
USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
Satellite imagery taken in late June and early July indicates eleven J-20 fighters at two Chinese bases near the disputed border with India —...