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The Navy tried to offload its Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships on South American partners, then pulled two off the sales list in January. It...
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The Navy tried to offload its Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships on South American partners, then pulled two off the sales list in January. It...
With 11 carrier strike groups covering the commitments 15 once did, nine- and 11-month deployments are becoming routine. Crews get 12-hour shifts, deferred maintenance...
The new F/A-XX will be an expensive platform that cannot live up to its promise simply because the tyranny of distance is so great...
The A-6 Intruder left the fleet in 1997 and a number of them were sunk off Florida as artificial reefs. The stealth bomber built...
Kelly Johnson's idea was to turn the CIA's A-12 into a missile truck that could sit above 80,000 feet at three times the speed...
The 1989 requirement was to defeat the CRISAT target — 1.6mm of titanium backed by twenty layers of Kevlar — which no pistol cartridge...
The Navy had just lost the A-12 Avenger II and had nothing to replace the aging A-6 Intruder, so Lockheed pitched the F-117 stealth...
Ford was built with thinner deck and bulkhead plates to save weight, and the steel turned out to be harder to work with —...
The requirement was one weapon family covering 200 meters in a hallway out to 800 meters in the sniper role, in two calibers, on...
The P-8's AN/APY-10 radar has synthetic aperture and inverse synthetic aperture modes that produce video-quality images through rain, clouds, and fog, and it can...