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Commissioned April 30, 1942, the 44,000-ton South Dakota-class battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) carried nine 16-inch guns firing 2,700-pound shells 23 miles. She fought at...
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Commissioned April 30, 1942, the 44,000-ton South Dakota-class battleship USS Indiana (BB-58) carried nine 16-inch guns firing 2,700-pound shells 23 miles. She fought at...
On October 20, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Rocket Cargo program flew experimental cargo pods on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, riding...
On January 26, 1966, Lockheed test pilot Bill Weaver was flying SR-71 Blackbird 61-7952 at Mach 3.18 and 78,800 feet when an engine unstart...
Eight months into the Iran War, with sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln running low on some food, the Pentagon has doubled hostile fire pay...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines produced 32,500 pounds of thrust each and pushed the jet to Mach 3.2, but no...
The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...
In 1949 the Navy laid the keel of USS United States, a 65,000-ton supercarrier. Five days later Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled it in...
The F-14 Tomcat was designed around a Pratt & Whitney F-401 engine that was not ready in time, so Grumman used the TF-30 from...
Between 1992 and 1999, Boeing’s Phantom Works flew a tailless, alien-looking stealth demonstrator at Area 51: the Bird of Prey. It used landing gear...