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Summary and Key Points: The A-10 Thunderbolt II, famously known as the Warthog, is heading to the “Boneyard” for retirement, but its combat story...
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Summary and Key Points: The A-10 Thunderbolt II, famously known as the Warthog, is heading to the “Boneyard” for retirement, but its combat story...
Summary and Key Points: The XB-70 Valkyrie: The “Future” That Crashed in 1966 -The XB-70 Valkyrie was a Mach 3, six-engine marvel designed to...
Summary and Key Points: Flying in a modern fighter is a bucket-list thrill—but it’s not for the faint of stomach. This rundown spotlights the...
Synopsis: Ukraine has confirmed the shootdown of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber and an Su-30SM multirole fighter, reportedly intercepted by a U.S.-made PAC-3 Patriot system....
“Sphere of influence” has returned as a defining idea, but the real story is bigger than a U.S.-China-Russia triangle. Eight powers—India, Japan, Brazil, Saudi...
Russia’s Su-35S has become a symbol of the VKS’s broader failure to secure air superiority in Ukraine. Confirmed losses vary widely by source, with...
Summary and Key Points: Ukraine sought M1A1 Abrams tanks, expecting Desert Storm-style dominance, but the battlefield delivered a different verdict. In fact, the last...
Summary and Key Points: In the post-Soviet 1990s, U.S.-Russia cooperation on arms control helped fuel a wider nonproliferation push through the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat...
Synopsis: Russia’s Su-57 was marketed as a breakthrough fifth-generation fighter, with stealth, advanced sensing, and even manned-unmanned teaming. -But the program is increasingly defined...
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s Aerospace Forces are absorbing punishing losses of two premium combat aircraft—the Su-34 fighter-bomber and the Su-35 “Super Flanker”—raising questions...