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Japan’s Taigei-class is its most advanced attack submarine: 84 meters long, 3,000 tons, built around lithium-ion batteries that replaced the Sōryū-class’s Stirling air-independent propulsion...
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Japan’s Taigei-class is its most advanced attack submarine: 84 meters long, 3,000 tons, built around lithium-ion batteries that replaced the Sōryū-class’s Stirling air-independent propulsion...
After one of the Air Force’s two SR-71B trainers crashed on January 11, 1968, Lockheed built a replacement from parts: the forward fuselage of...
The Army plans to replace some of its 7,300 Bradley Fighting Vehicles with the XM30, a hybrid-electric vehicle with an unmanned 50mm turret. Prototypes...
Summary and Key Points: On January 27, 1982, the nose wheel of an F-117 prototype detached on takeoff from Area 51 and bounced down...
Summary and Key Points: Expert Caleb Larson reports Lockheed Martin CEO Jim Taiclet’s earnings-call pitch to keep the F-35 the “most numerous, most important”...
Commissioned 1940–1942, the Royal Navy’s King George V-class battleships carried ten 14-inch guns under treaty limits other navies moved past. HMS King George V...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines produced 32,500 pounds of thrust each and pushed the jet to Mach 3.2, but no...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...