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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...
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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...
The right SR-71 afterburner attachment section blew out on a low pass over the runway, driving flame into the nacelle and peeling titanium off...
The 1989 requirement was to defeat the CRISAT target — 1.6mm of titanium backed by twenty layers of Kevlar — which no pistol cartridge...
The Navy had just lost the A-12 Avenger II and had nothing to replace the aging A-6 Intruder, so Lockheed pitched the F-117 stealth...
Ford was built with thinner deck and bulkhead plates to save weight, and the steel turned out to be harder to work with —...
A Cessna got 90 knots. A Beechcraft got 125. Then an F/A-18 out of NAS Lemoore came on the frequency and got 620, which...
HK borrowed the gas system from the G36: a short-stroke piston drives an operating rod into the carrier so fouling never reaches the action....
The requirement was one weapon family covering 200 meters in a hallway out to 800 meters in the sniper role, in two calibers, on...
The P-8's AN/APY-10 radar has synthetic aperture and inverse synthetic aperture modes that produce video-quality images through rain, clouds, and fog, and it can...
If Russia does build a MiG-41, it will most likely be a heavy interceptor. The credible version is a MiG-31 successor with better range,...
Block IV Virginias are built to carry America's special operators as well as missiles. A large integrated lockout chamber and the torpedo room's design...