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The US Navy Once Had 51 Perry-Class Frigates. Today It Has 0, Its Replacement Program Was Cut From 20 Ships to 2, and the Next Frigate May Be a Coast Guard Cutter

Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...

Sean Spoonts2 hours ago

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The US Air Force Retired the F-117 Nighthawk in 2008 and Never Stopped Flying It. The Service Now Says the Aircraft Will Stay in the Air Until 2034 — 26 Years After Its Own Retirement.

Lockheed built 64 F-117 Nighthawks — 5 development aircraft and 59 production F-117As — in a classified program costing about $6,560,000,000. The Air Force...

Brandon WeichertSeptember 10, 2026

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Congress Spent $100,000,000 Bringing Just 2 SR-71 Blackbirds Back from Retirement in 1995 and Another $30,000,000 in 1997. By 1998 the Program Was Dead Again.

Across its whole service life the SR-71 Blackbird accumulated 53,490 flight hours, 11,675 of them above Mach 3, over 17,300 sorties. By the late...

Brandon WeichertSeptember 10, 2026

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower conducts rudder turns during sea trials. Dwight D. Eisenhower completed a nine-month planned incremental availability at Norfolk Naval Ship Yard on June 10 and is scheduled to resume underway operations this summer.

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100,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Deployed for 326 Days, a Post-Cold War Record. USS Abraham Lincoln Went 264 Days Without a Port Visit. A Normal Carrier Deployment Runs About 7 Months.

USS Abraham Lincoln went 264 days without a port visit and USS Gerald R. Ford deployed 326 days. USS Theodore Roosevelt is converting compartments...

Jack BuckbySeptember 10, 2026

U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors, E-3 Sentrys, C-17 Globemaster IIIs, C-130J Herculeses and C-12F Hurons participate in a close formation taxi known as an elephant walk at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, May 5, 2020. This event displayed the ability of the 3rd Wing, 176th Wing and the 477th Fighter Group to maintain constant readiness throughout COVID-19 by Total Force Integration between active-duty, Guard and Reserve units to continue defending the U.S. homeland and ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Jonathan Valdes Montijo)

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The US Air Force Capped F-22 Raptor Production at 187 Aircraft at About $143,000,000 Each. In November 2009 a French Rafale Costing About 64,000,000 Euros Got Behind 1 and Took the Shot.

The F-22 Raptor was built to kill an enemy fighter before that fighter knew it was there, at roughly $143,000,000 an aircraft. At the...

Brandon WeichertSeptember 10, 2026

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A Laser Shot Costs a Few Dollars. The US Navy Estimates the First Real Shipboard Laser Program Would Cost About $1,000,000,000 Before a Single Destroyer Is Fitted With One.

An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer carries roughly 90 to 96 missiles in its vertical launch cells, and when they are gone it has to withdraw...

Harrison KassSeptember 10, 2026

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64 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur’s Line on Soldiers and Suffering Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

"The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of...

Stephen SilverSeptember 10, 2026

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Centuries Later, Julius Caesar’s Best Line on Pain and Patience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

"It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience." The...

Christian D. OrrSeptember 10, 2026

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Northrop Spent More Than $750,000,000 of Its Own Money on the F-20 Tigershark Without a Dollar of Pentagon Funding. It Sold 0 Aircraft and Wrote Off About $1,200,000,000.

Northrop funded the F-20 Tigershark itself — more than $750,000,000 with no Pentagon research money. The aircraft out-turned the F-16 at 13.2 degrees per...

Steve BalestrieriSeptember 10, 2026

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The Government Accountability Office Reviewed All 13 Programs in the US Air Force’s $21,000,000,000 B-52 Modernization and Found 10 of Them in Trouble. The Engine Replacement Went From $3,000,000,000 to $15,400,000,000.

The Government Accountability Office examined all 13 programs inside the US Air Force's roughly $21,000,000,000 B-52 modernization effort and found 10 of them running...

Caleb LarsonSeptember 10, 2026

Shock blast detonated off the starboard side of USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), September 19, 1987. The test was conducted to demonstrate the carrier's ability to withstand underwater shock waves. US Navy photo.

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A Dutch Diesel Submarine That Cost Less Than 1 of the Destroyers Guarding the Carrier “Sank” the US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and 7 Escort Warships in 1999. Then It Passed 1,500 Yards From the Carrier to Prove It Had Never Been Detected.

HNLMS Walrus was a 2,800-ton Dutch diesel boat costing somewhere between $340,000,000 and half a billion — less than one of the Aegis escorts...

Harry J. KazianisSeptember 10, 2026

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Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Once Had 51 Perry-Class Frigates. Today It Has 0, Its Replacement Program Was Cut From 20 Ships to 2, and the Next Frigate May Be a Coast Guard Cutter

Aerospace & Defense

The US Air Force Retired the F-117 Nighthawk in 2008 and Never Stopped Flying It. The Service Now Says the Aircraft Will Stay in the Air Until 2034 — 26 Years After Its Own Retirement.

Aerospace & Defense

Congress Spent $100,000,000 Bringing Just 2 SR-71 Blackbirds Back from Retirement in 1995 and Another $30,000,000 in 1997. By 1998 the Program Was Dead Again.

Aerospace & Defense

100,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Deployed for 326 Days, a Post-Cold War Record. USS Abraham Lincoln Went 264 Days Without a Port Visit. A Normal Carrier Deployment Runs About 7 Months.

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The US Air Force Capped F-22 Raptor Production at 187 Aircraft at About $143,000,000 Each. In November 2009 a French Rafale Costing About 64,000,000 Euros Got Behind 1 and Took the Shot.

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A Laser Shot Costs a Few Dollars. The US Navy Estimates the First Real Shipboard Laser Program Would Cost About $1,000,000,000 Before a Single Destroyer Is Fitted With One.

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64 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur’s Line on Soldiers and Suffering Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

Aerospace & Defense

Centuries Later, Julius Caesar’s Best Line on Pain and Patience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

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Northrop Spent More Than $750,000,000 of Its Own Money on the F-20 Tigershark Without a Dollar of Pentagon Funding. It Sold 0 Aircraft and Wrote Off About $1,200,000,000.

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The Government Accountability Office Reviewed All 13 Programs in the US Air Force’s $21,000,000,000 B-52 Modernization and Found 10 of Them in Trouble. The Engine Replacement Went From $3,000,000,000 to $15,400,000,000.

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A Dutch Diesel Submarine That Cost Less Than 1 of the Destroyers Guarding the Carrier “Sank” the US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and 7 Escort Warships in 1999. Then It Passed 1,500 Yards From the Carrier to Prove It Had Never Been Detected.

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