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$1.5 Trillion Is the Largest Defense Budget in History — It Doesn’t Matter If 99% Goes to Legacy Systems and Less Than 1% Goes...
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$1.5 Trillion Is the Largest Defense Budget in History — It Doesn’t Matter If 99% Goes to Legacy Systems and Less Than 1% Goes...
Iran Has Threatened to Mine the Entire Persian Gulf — The Houthis Could Extend Mining to the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait Just...
The F-47 NGAD Gets $5 Billion in the Defense Budget — The Navy’s F/A-XX Gets $140 Million With $72 Million Tied to an Uncertain...
The MiG-41 PAK DP Is Designed to Replace the MiG-31 Foxhound — Russia’s High-Speed Interceptor That Has Defended Its Airspace for 40 Years Stealthy,...
The Spruance-Class Destroyer Was as Large as a WWII Cruiser — Congress Thought It Didn’t Look Scary Enough and Almost Killed the Program The...
The Ford Aircraft Carrier Borrowed Its Vacuum Sewage System From the Cruise Ship Industry — Cruise Ships Don’t Run 19-Hour Combat Operations When the...
How Many T-72 Tanks Have Been Destroyed in Ukraine? Back in the heady days of the Cold War, the Soviet-made T-72 was one of...
The F-14 Tomcat Shot Down 5 Enemy Aircraft and Never Lost a Single Jet in Air-to-Air Combat Thanks to the blockbuster Top Gun film...
The Pentagon Called the F-111 a Failure — It Flew 4,000 Vietnam Missions, Bombed Gaddafi’s Libya, and Outperformed the A-10 in Desert Storm As...
The Type 004 Will Be Larger Than the USS Gerald R. Ford and Carry More Aircraft — China’s First Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Is Already...