Aerospace & Defense
Hand-selected National Match barrels, individually fitted receivers, fiberglass bedding, epoxy-impregnated walnut, and triggers set between 4.5 and 4.75 pounds. Fielded as the XM21 and...
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Hand-selected National Match barrels, individually fitted receivers, fiberglass bedding, epoxy-impregnated walnut, and triggers set between 4.5 and 4.75 pounds. Fielded as the XM21 and...
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...
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 —...