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The helicopter's structural weakness has been the same since Vietnam: to be useful it must fly into the range of what is trying to...
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The helicopter's structural weakness has been the same since Vietnam: to be useful it must fly into the range of what is trying to...
When the J-20 entered service in 2017, the airframe, sensors and weapons were Chinese and the engines were not. Initial aircraft flew on Russian...
At Red Flag 17-1, 13 F-35As recorded 145 simulated air-to-air kills against seven losses. F-16 aggressors came in repeated waves, forcing some engagements into...
The usual framing of the air balance in the Western Pacific is stealth against stealth. That is not what the Air Force is actually...
The Iowa class was designed for a fight that never arrived. Four ships, 36 sixteen-inch guns, 33 knots to run down Japan's fast capital...
The USS George Washington and its strike group entered the South China Sea this week, days after two confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels...
Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
An SR-71 lost effective thrust at 83,000 feet near the Soviet Kola Peninsula, fell 65,000 feet, and reached a tanker with minutes left.
The third Seawolf-class submarine is not quite like the other two. USS Jimmy Carter carries a 100-foot section inserted into the hull specifically for...
The story gets repeated in a fixed shape: a cheap Canadian diesel submarine caught a nuclear supercarrier during a 1981 NATO exercise. The documentary...
The Soviet Union completed four nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers, and as of this summer their fates diverge completely. One went for dismantlement under a five-billion-ruble...