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Summary and Key Points: While most of the U.S. Navy’s modernization portfolio is struggling, delayed, or stuck on a Pentagon slide, one platform is...
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Summary and Key Points: While most of the U.S. Navy’s modernization portfolio is struggling, delayed, or stuck on a Pentagon slide, one platform is...
‘We Lose Pieces Bigger Than What You Fly’: A Valkyrie Pilot’s Response to a YF-12 Pilot Bragging About Mach 3 Hours Is the Best...
F-14 Pilots Were Forced to ‘Fly the Engine’ — Managing Throttle Inputs Carefully Instead of Fighting the Enemy The iconic F-14 Tomcat evolved into...
The A-10 Is the Only Aircraft in History Designed Around Its Gun — A 30mm GAU-8 Avenger Gatling That Fires 3,900 Rounds Per Minute...
7,346 MPH — The X-43A Was So Fast It Could Cross the Atlantic Ocean in 25 Minutes and Nobody Has Built Anything Faster As...
Britain Is Spending £800 Million to Convert 148 Old Challenger 2s Into Challenger 3s — Europe May Need 10 Times That Many Tanks if...
SR-71 Blackbird Pilot David Peters: ‘Very Few Missiles Could Make Up 36 or More Miles Per Minute’ The iconic SR-71 Blackbird was America’s spy...
$1.5 Trillion Is the Largest Defense Budget in History — It Doesn’t Matter If 99% Goes to Legacy Systems and Less Than 1% Goes...
Iran Has Threatened to Mine the Entire Persian Gulf — The Houthis Could Extend Mining to the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait Just...
The F-47 NGAD Gets $5 Billion in the Defense Budget — The Navy’s F/A-XX Gets $140 Million With $72 Million Tied to an Uncertain...
The MiG-41 PAK DP Is Designed to Replace the MiG-31 Foxhound — Russia’s High-Speed Interceptor That Has Defended Its Airspace for 40 Years Stealthy,...