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The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
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The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
Lockheed never flight-tested the SR-71 past Mach 3.2, yet Ed Yeilding and J.T. Vida cruised at Mach 3.3 for most of the Blackbird’s final...
Every SR-71 “flaw” was a trade. Its 80-percent-titanium airframe stretched by inches at 2,000-plus mph, so 1960s sealants couldn’t hold the integral tanks shut...
Open-source trackers put China’s J-20 fleet at roughly 500 to 520 as of mid-2026, against the 550 to 580 F-35As the US Air Force...
Canada’s review of the F-35 buy, begun in March 2025 amid Trump’s tariff threats, has a problem bigger than which jet to pick: pilots.
On May 6, 1956, off the Virginia Capes, the destroyer USS Eaton, radar dead for four days, turned hard at 27 knots toward a...
Project 885 or Yasen-class took from a mid-1970s drawing board to 2010 to deliver Severodvinsk, and Russia kept paying through the Soviet collapse to...
Late on November 2, 1985, as the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise recovered jets 100 miles west of San Diego and the bridge dealt with...
The Glock Safe Action System is three passive mechanical interlocks in the fire control group, and not one of them depends on the shooter...
When Kimber, a 1911 house, unveiled the K6 at SHOT Show 2016, Lucky Gunner called it a big gamble. It worked: a 23-ounce stainless...
Satellite imagery obtained by Aviation Week shows the SR-71A displayed at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center at Edwards has been moved, and NASA has...