Aerospace & Defense
The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
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The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
Object 640 took a lengthened T-80U hull and put an entirely new low-profile turret on it, with Kaktus reactive armor, a planned 1,400-horsepower turbine,...
The new F/A-XX will be an expensive platform that cannot live up to its promise simply because the tyranny of distance is so great...
The A-6 Intruder left the fleet in 1997 and a number of them were sunk off Florida as artificial reefs. The stealth bomber built...
In February 1964 the White House announced a new interceptor called the A-11 so anyone spotting the sleek black jets would think fighter, not...
Saab's M4 weighs just over 15 pounds, six less than the M3, and fires anti-tank, thermobaric, airburst and flechette rounds every five seconds. The...
Finnish and Swedish fighters intercepted at least two MiG-31s this month in their first joint QRA mission, days after Finland took its first two...
The titanium tooling had been destroyed, so a new SR-71 Blackbird was impossible. At Edwards, 16 test flights chased a phantom four-degree yaw until...
Designed to crack Germany's Siegfried Line, the 95-ton T28 wasn't ready until August 1945, three months after Germany surrendered. One prototype was scrapped; the...
Proposed in 1955 under Operation Question Mark, the 25-ton TV-8 could float across rivers on its sealed turret. Its reactor would have forced constant...
Kelly Johnson's idea was to turn the CIA's A-12 into a missile truck that could sit above 80,000 feet at three times the speed...