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Key Points: This piece asks what the U.S. Air Force would look like if it had fielded 750 F-22 Raptors instead of fewer than...
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Key Points: This piece asks what the U.S. Air Force would look like if it had fielded 750 F-22 Raptors instead of fewer than...
Article Summary – France’s Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the Navy’s lone aircraft carrier and first domestically built nuclear-powered flattop. -Commissioned in 2001, the...
Article Summary – The Midway-class aircraft carriers were conceived during World War II but entered service too late to see combat, emerging instead as...
Article Summary – NASA’s X-43A scramjet set a stunning air-breathing speed record in 2004, hitting Mach 9.6 after a B-52/Pegasus launch—but the engine only...
Article Summary – Chinese state TV now touts the J-35 carrier fighter as nearly matching the F-35’s stealth, claiming a radar cross-section smaller than...
Article Summary – China’s J-20A is the first major evolution of the J-20 “Mighty Dragon,” built around new WS-15 engines that finally give Beijing...
Article Summary – The B-21 Raider is everything the Air Force wants in a next-generation stealth bomber: smaller, more flexible, easier to sustain, and...
Article Summary – The Lockheed XF-104 Starfighter emerged directly from Korean War combat lessons, after U.S. pilots found their F-86 Sabres outclassed by MiG-15s....
Article Summary – The Iowa-class battleships were the high point of American battleship design, and USS Missouri—“Big Mo”—is their most famous representative. -Commissioned in...
Key Points and Summary – Japan’s Yamato-class battleships were the largest and heaviest ever built, mounting nine 18.1-inch guns on hulls displacing more than...