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She was the only one of her kind: a titanium submarine built to dive below the reach of NATO's weapons, and she set a...
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She was the only one of her kind: a titanium submarine built to dive below the reach of NATO's weapons, and she set a...
The MBT-70 never entered production, but its cancelled funding was redirected into the two programmes that produced the M1 Abrams and the Leopard 2.
By the time the first F-111B was ready for demonstration, it was 77,000 pounds gross weight, while its projected takeoff weight was a staggering...
The X-30 was to take off from a commercial runway like an ordinary aircraft, accelerate toward Mach 25, enter low-Earth orbit, and land conventionally...
From Nixon's 1972 promise to the museums: the Space Shuttle's development bill doubled, its fleet built the space station and saved Hubble, and two...
Vice Adm. Richard Dunleavy publicly questioned whether the Navy needed the F-22 Sea Raptor at all, citing its weight, as Cold War defense budgets...
The only jet ever built to hunt submarines from a carrier deck never dropped a weapon on one. It fought in Iraq instead, passed...
One RIM-7 Sea Sparrow from aircraft carrier USS Saratoga struck the Turkish destroyer's bridge area, killing five sailors including her commanding officer, Captain Kudret...
Few US Navy warships matched the technological ambitions of the early Cold War era like the USS Long Beach. She combined nuclear endurance and...
US Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Evans was ordered to move behind HMAS Melbourne during a SEATO exercise on June 3, 1969. A confused...