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After the 1960 U-2 shootdown, the CIA wanted a plane nothing could catch: Lockheed’s A-12 Oxcart, Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet, tested at Area...
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After the 1960 U-2 shootdown, the CIA wanted a plane nothing could catch: Lockheed’s A-12 Oxcart, Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet, tested at Area...
Sean Spoonts, a former Navy anti-submarine warfare operator, argues the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ submarine never earned the name: respected Charlie-class and feared Victor III...
For decades Beijing and Moscow treated North Korea as a shared client — “as close as lips and teeth,” in Mao’s phrase. Ted Galen...
Sean Spoonts traces aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) back to arithmetic. The Washington naval treaties gave the US Navy 135,000 tons of carriers; Lexington...
On October 28 the Borei-class submarine Generalissimus Suvorov fired a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile while submerged in the Sea of Okhotsk, hitting a range...
Two satellites from Russia’s Rassvet broadband constellation, the Kremlin’s answer to Starlink, have sunk below 230 km without a single orbit-raising burn and are...
Over four straight days, October 20 to 23, Chinese Y-9s and Russian IL-20s flew toward Japan while 45,000 Japanese personnel and 260 aircraft ran...
Engineers at China’s Aviation Industry Corporation have proposed installing large radar arrays inside the J-20 Mighty Dragon’s wings, letting the stealth fighter do surveillance...
Ukraine’s June agreement covers 16 new Saab Gripen E fighters at about $2.5 billion including spares, training, and support. Sweden will donate 16 older...
A 2024 satellite photo of China’s Shenlong spaceplane, payload doors open in orbit, surfaced in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Challenges to Security in Space...