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France's nuclear carrier took twelve years to build, lost her propeller in the Atlantic, and sailed six years on spares made for 1960s ships....
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France's nuclear carrier took twelve years to build, lost her propeller in the Atlantic, and sailed six years on spares made for 1960s ships....
While the YF-23 fought for the Air Force contract, Northrop was drawing a carrier version to replace the F-14: folding wings, twin tails, canards,...
Drones killed 14,000 armored vehicles in Ukraine and revived the tank-obsolescence argument. The Army's answer reached the Detroit Auto Show in January: the M1E3...
In 1996 the Navy and DARPA designed a ship carrying 500 cruise missiles with 50 sailors for $450 million. Its champion died, the Navy...
American analysts keep mirror-imaging China's J-20 as a rival dogfighter to the F-22. That's the wrong lens. The Mighty Dragon is evolving into a...
Trump put a number on last night's strikes: 49 Tomahawks — roughly six months of production fired in one night. The Iran war has...
Ten days before Desert Storm proved stealth worked, Dick Cheney canceled the Navy's stealth bomber. The bill: a carrier air wing with half its...
The Navy packed two dozen first-of-kind technologies into one aircraft carrier hull and spent a decade getting hammered for it. Now the Ford has...
On April 23, 1991, the Air Force picked the YF-22 over a competitor that was stealthier, faster, and longer-legged. Thirty-five years later, every sixth-generation...
A satellite pass over Bohai Shipyard in February caught something analysts didn't expect: China's first Type 095 attack submarine, launched without a word from...