Aerospace & Defense
Pitched to Congress in 1972 as a $20-million-a-flight space truck, the Space Shuttle flew 135 missions over 30 years at about $1.5 billion each,...
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Pitched to Congress in 1972 as a $20-million-a-flight space truck, the Space Shuttle flew 135 missions over 30 years at about $1.5 billion each,...
On October 26, 2006, a 2,200-ton Chinese Song-class diesel-electric submarine surfaced about five miles from the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk near Okinawa, inside...
The US Army spent roughly $6.9 billion on the RAH-66 Comanche and finished two flying prototypes, $3.45 billion each by the bluntest math, before...
At 1:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, USS Missouri, laid down in 1941, fired the first battleship Tomahawk of the war. Over five weeks...
“Veni, vidi, vici” — I came, I saw, I conquered — is how Julius Caesar reported his war against Pharnaces II of Pontus in...
“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why,” the line credited...
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals,” Winston Churchill said, and...
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the...
“To be prepared for war is the most effectual means to preserve peace,” George Washington told Congress on January 8, 1790. In July 1897,...
“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of...