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...
Most people don't know Italy operates an aircraft carrier at all. The Cavour, flagship of the Italian Navy, is a fraction the size of...
On paper, the Navy's Wasp-class ships are amphibious assault ships, built to land Marines, helicopters, and vehicles on a hostile shore. But load one...
In November 1988 the Soviet Union flew its own space shuttle. Buran reached orbit, circled the Earth twice, and landed itself completely on autopilot,...
Last week, the tried-and-true USS Nimitz aircraft carrier completed an important mission. The historic flat-top had been assigned to the Southern Command area of...
For the first time, China has released footage of its DF-17 hypersonic missile launching, filmed during a desert exercise simulating waves of strikes. Flying...
Commissioned in 2009, the USS George H.W. Bush was the last Nimitz-class carrier the United States ever built, and she isn't quite like the...
Newly revealed footage shows the damage from a fire that tore through the USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive warship ever built. What...
After two decades of upgrade packages, the M1 Abrams had ballooned to nearly 80 tons, so heavy it strained bridges and logistics, and so...
For more than a decade, America's X-37B spaceplane has quietly circled the Earth for months, even years, at a time, running classified experiments that...
On the outside it looks like an ordinary Glock 19, but the Navy SEALs' Mk 27 hides modifications built for one of the hardest...