Aerospace & Defense
In March 1990 the US Navy estimated the F-22 Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter at $66.1 billion — $8.5 billion to develop and $57.6 billion...
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In March 1990 the US Navy estimated the F-22 Naval Advanced Tactical Fighter at $66.1 billion — $8.5 billion to develop and $57.6 billion...
Tucked inside an answer about F-15s and F-16s was a price nobody requested: $15.9 million to make the A-10 a nuclear bomber. The memo...
She cost $285 million, made Thailand Southeast Asia's only carrier power, and hasn't launched a jet since 2006. The Chakri Naruebet is easy to...
The Harpoon's evolution ends up carrying a lesson bigger than one missile. It was born for a mission that vanished, remade by a single...
Every pilot's account begins with the push — a jet that could out-climb its own weight, straight up. As the last F-15Cs head for...
Ordered in 2014, commissioned in 2026: the dozen-year clock on America's newest submarines, and the two-yard bottleneck quietly setting the fleet's size.
More than a thousand Tomahawks have gone into Iran — the largest expenditure in the weapon's history, against an adversary with broken defenses. The...
Sixteen years from first steel to the fleet — for a ship America once built in two. Follow the Kennedy through the yard and...
In March 2026 a U.S. fast-attack submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena with a single Mark 48, the first American submarine torpedo sinking...
In one budget cycle the F-15EX program of record jumped from 129 aircraft to 267, the largest fighter-buy reversal in years. The jet was...
The Navy didn't want them. The fleet mocked them. Then six of the little carriers found themselves alone in the path of Japan's main...