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...
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...
The Navy planned 32 Zumwalt-class destroyers and built three. It planned 20 Constellation-class frigates, and cancelled the program in November 2025 with two under...
The question people ask is whether China could sink an American supercarrier. It is the wrong question. A carrier that still floats but cannot...