Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In the 1980s Israel built a fighter to rival the American F-16, the Lavi, and it flew beautifully. It never entered service. Washington had...
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In the 1980s Israel built a fighter to rival the American F-16, the Lavi, and it flew beautifully. It never entered service. Washington had...
In 1996 the Navy and DARPA designed a ship carrying 500 cruise missiles with 50 sailors for $450 million. Its champion died, the Navy...
After the A-12 died, Lockheed offered the Navy carrier-based stealth twice: first a marinized Nighthawk, then the heavily redesigned A/F-117X with folding wings, air-to-air...
American analysts keep mirror-imaging China's J-20 as a rival dogfighter to the F-22. That's the wrong lens. The Mighty Dragon is evolving into a...
Trump put a number on last night's strikes: 49 Tomahawks — roughly six months of production fired in one night. The Iran war has...
Ten days before Desert Storm proved stealth worked, Dick Cheney canceled the Navy's stealth bomber. The bill: a carrier air wing with half its...
The Navy packed two dozen first-of-kind technologies into one aircraft carrier hull and spent a decade getting hammered for it. Now the Ford has...
On April 23, 1991, the Air Force picked the YF-22 over a competitor that was stealthier, faster, and longer-legged. Thirty-five years later, every sixth-generation...
A satellite pass over Bohai Shipyard in February caught something analysts didn't expect: China's first Type 095 attack submarine, launched without a word from...
Commercial satellites caught China's fighter plants adding eight million square feet — enough to build 100-plus stealth fighters a year while the F-22 line...
Chinese military analysts believe the J-35 stealth fighter may be able to carry four YJ-15 supersonic anti-ship missiles internally — hidden, with no radar-signature...