Aerospace & Defense
The Tu-160 “White Swan” first flew on December 18, 1981, and remains the heaviest combat aircraft ever built: 275 metric tons, variable-sweep wings, Mach...
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The Tu-160 “White Swan” first flew on December 18, 1981, and remains the heaviest combat aircraft ever built: 275 metric tons, variable-sweep wings, Mach...
A former Air Force avionics technician says Russia’s Su-57 Felon would have been revolutionary in 1985. Brandon J. Weichert argues the critics are measuring...
Germany hadn’t spent 1.5 percent of GDP on defense since 1996. Then came the Zeitenwende: €100 billion for the Bundeswehr and a 4,800-strong brigade...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
Drones like the MQ-25 Stingray still need a deck to launch from, missiles are expended rather than reused, and America-class amphibious ships fly F-35Bs...
The 152mm idea dates to the Soviet Object 195, which never entered production, and it forces a turret redesign, more internal volume and a...
Laid down at Mykolaiv in 1988 beside the future Liaoning, the 1,054-foot aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk had a 70%-complete hull by 1992 when Russia told...
The T-90M was the answer to everything the earlier tanks got wrong: a welded turret, Relikt reactive armor, the Kalina fire control suite, and...
Object 640 took a lengthened T-80U hull and put an entirely new low-profile turret on it, with Kaktus reactive armor, a planned 1,400-horsepower turbine,...
Finnish and Swedish fighters intercepted at least two MiG-31s this month in their first joint QRA mission, days after Finland took its first two...