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Despite the novel ideas behind the RAH-66, the project ultimately never got past the prototype stage. The program simply did not offer enough bang...
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Despite the novel ideas behind the RAH-66, the project ultimately never got past the prototype stage. The program simply did not offer enough bang...
Article Summary – Today’s tailless, 6th-generation stealth fighters did not appear from nowhere. Lockheed Martin’s X-44 MANTA, conceived in 1999 as a “tailless F-22,”...
Key Points and Summary – China’s rumored JH-XX stealth bomber is being hyped as a regional game-changer, sitting between the J-20 fighter and H-20...
Article Summary – Talk of drones and AI “revolutionizing” warfare repeats the same RMA hype of the 1990s. Technologies like the B-21 Raider, unmanned...
Article Summary – The Soviet Alfa-class was a radical answer to a Cold War problem: sprint through NATO’s GIUK chokepoint, hunt U.S. carriers, and...
Article Summary – The A-12 Avenger II was the Navy’s bid to put a stealth strike jet on carrier decks after the F-117’s debut,...
Article Summary – This article explains how the U.S. Navy dragged its Iowa-class battleships into the missile age. -Facing a growing Soviet threat, the...
Key Points: This piece asks what the U.S. Air Force would look like if it had fielded 750 F-22 Raptors instead of fewer than...
Article Summary – France’s Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the Navy’s lone aircraft carrier and first domestically built nuclear-powered flattop. -Commissioned in 2001, the...
Article Summary – The Midway-class aircraft carriers were conceived during World War II but entered service too late to see combat, emerging instead as...
Article Summary – NASA’s X-43A scramjet set a stunning air-breathing speed record in 2004, hitting Mach 9.6 after a B-52/Pegasus launch—but the engine only...