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USS Tripoli struck an Iraqi LUGM contact mine in the Persian Gulf on the morning of 18 February 1991, taking a 25-by-25-foot hole in...
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USS Tripoli struck an Iraqi LUGM contact mine in the Persian Gulf on the morning of 18 February 1991, taking a 25-by-25-foot hole in...
Chinese commentators are mocking the canards on the F-47 renderings as a stealth mistake. Hanging in a museum in Ohio is a small gray...
Count every hull with tracks and a cannon, and Russia owns the biggest tank army on earth. Count the tanks that actually run, and...
Meet the M1 Abrams Tank: The tank is named for Gen. Creighton Abrams, the World War II armor commander who later ran the Army,...
In 1967, Pete Knight flew Mach 6.72 and was called the fastest man alive. For thirty years, the Space Shuttle made that number look...
On October 3, 1967, Pete Knight landed the X-15 having flown faster than any pilot before or since — Mach 6.72. Then he climbed...
America's next bomber enters July 2026 ahead of its own schedule, built by a contractor losing money on every early airframe, and wanted in...
The U-2 was sold to Eisenhower as invisible to Soviet radar. The invisibility lasted exactly zero missions. What Kelly Johnson built to replace it...
The Air Force is attempting something no service has tried: rebuilding bombers whose newest airframe was delivered in 1962 to fly into the 2050s,...
The Russian pilot never left his own airspace, never saw his target, never even maneuvered. He fired a Mach 6 missile at a Ukrainian...
The WS-20 turbofan ended China's dependence on Russian engines — and Y-20B production is now outpacing both the U.S. and Russia on heavy transports.