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The J58 burned JP-7, a blend so hard to ignite that a lit match dropped into it goes out. Starting the engines required a...
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The J58 burned JP-7, a blend so hard to ignite that a lit match dropped into it goes out. Starting the engines required a...
The F-5E was never meant to be the best fighter available. It was built to be credible, affordable and easy to keep in the...
Lockheed built 64 F-117 Nighthawks — 5 development aircraft and 59 production F-117As — in a classified program costing about $6,560,000,000. The Air Force...
Across its whole service life the SR-71 Blackbird accumulated 53,490 flight hours, 11,675 of them above Mach 3, over 17,300 sorties. By the late...
An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer carries roughly 90 to 96 missiles in its vertical launch cells, and when they are gone it has to withdraw...
Canada bought three Oberon-class diesel submarines in the 1960s, mainly for training. During a NATO exercise in the Atlantic, one of them was told...
On 11 November 1942, with the Second Battle of El Alamein just won, Winston Churchill stood in the House of Commons and warned that...
In June 1985 the Soviet Union released 2 balloons into the clouds of Venus. Each was 3.4 meters across, hung a 7-kilogram gondola from...
Lockheed built 188 S-3 Vikings for one job: finding and killing Soviet submarines from the deck of an aircraft carrier. The Soviet Union collapsed...
Sweden spent the early Cold War building an entire defense industry rather than depend on anyone else's, and the Saab 36 was where that...