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Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
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Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
Iran does not yet have a reconnaissance-strike complex capable of putting a US Navy aircraft carrier battlegroup in serious danger. Finding warships, tracking them,...
When the Soviet Union broke up, Moldova found itself with 34 MiG-29 Fulcrums and no money to maintain them, no pilots to spare and...
Glock's model numbers confuse people for good reason. The Glock 17 is named partly for Gaston Glock's seventeenth patent and partly for its 17-round...
Tail number 61-7974 was tracking Soviet naval activity off the Kola Peninsula at Mach 3 and 83,000 feet when the right engine unstarted. The...
The fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown was twelve feet long, weighed about 3,300 pounds, carried nobody, and was designed to be thrown away. On...
Boeing's X-32 first flew in September 2000 and made 66 flights in four months, demonstrating in-flight refuelling, weapons bay operations and supersonic flight in...
The numbers from Desert Storm are the reason the F-117 changed how air forces think. It flew about 2 percent of the combat sorties...
By the early 1970s the M60 was falling behind the T-64 and T-72, and the tank that would answer them was still years from...
YF-23: The familiar version of this story is that the Air Force chose comfort over vision. It is emotionally satisfying and it explains almost...
The People's Liberation Army Air Force operates around 300 J-20 stealth fighters, is accelerating the J-35, and has two sixth-generation designs in development that...