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France has named its next aircraft carrier the France Libre, after Charles de Gaulle's wartime Free French movement — and it will be nearly...
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France has named its next aircraft carrier the France Libre, after Charles de Gaulle's wartime Free French movement — and it will be nearly...
The United Kingdom’s Vanguard-class submarines are the Royal Navy’s persistent, continuous nuclear deterrent force at sea. A class of just four boats, one of...
The battlecruiser was supposed to be extinct after 1945 — until the Soviet Union built four nuclear-powered Kirov-class giants, the largest surface warships since...
The Leopard 2 is widely considered one of the best tanks ever built — world-class armor, firepower, mobility, and fire control, fielded by more...
America has the Abrams, Germany the Leopard 2, Britain the Challenger — and Italy has the Ariete, the tank NATO forgets and often mocks....
The terms of the Memorandum of Understanding ending the U.S.-Iran war are now public. This analysis argues the deal is worth supporting as an...
The F-14 Tomcat was never meant to fly on the TF30. Designed for the Pratt & Whitney F401, it got the TF30 as a...
In the 1970s the Soviet Union set out to challenge American carriers with the Kiev-class — a hybrid "heavy aviation cruiser" bristling with anti-ship...
The MQ-25 Stingray just cleared Milestone C, moving the world's first carrier-based autonomous aircraft toward the fleet. It isn't a fighter or a bomber...
Before the SR-71 Blackbird ever flew, a Soviet aviation designer named Pavel Tsybin was already trying to build a spy plane to beat it...