Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The B-52 First Took Flight Seventy Years Ago – The year was 1952. The Buick Roadmaster was the top-selling automobile that year, with a...
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The B-52 First Took Flight Seventy Years Ago – The year was 1952. The Buick Roadmaster was the top-selling automobile that year, with a...
The Tu-95 might just be Russia‘s version of the B-52 bomber: To date, the Kremlin hasn’t deployed its powerful fleet of bombers against targets in...
Russia’s Tu-160 Bomber: Just How Capable Is It? A tricky challenge in defense analysis is grasping a potential adversary’s own perceptions of military capabilities and...
B-1B Bomber: Congress Votes to Keep It For Now: Hello again, B-1B bomber, it looks like you’re not going away. Congress in the latest...
Tu-160: A History – As tensions escalate between Russia and Ukraine, the latter is ironically at risk of being bombarded by aircraft and missiles...
Designed to fly at high altitudes and at supersonic speeds, the United States Air Force‘s Convair B-58 Hustler was actually the first operational bomber capable of Mach...
Meet the Tu-160: A modern variant of the Russian Blackjack bomber is getting a new lease on life. The Tu-160M has improved engines and...
Russia’s Tu-160M strategic bomber has been compared at times to the U.S. Air Force’s B-1 bomber, and both have been steadily upgraded since entering...
When the last Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is finally retired, which may not be until the 2050s, the United States Air Force bomber could have...