Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
“SA-2s don’t play no games/Just kickin’ *** and a’takin’ names/You’re lookin’ at a bona fide shell-shocked Viet vet…” That is a line from the...
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“SA-2s don’t play no games/Just kickin’ *** and a’takin’ names/You’re lookin’ at a bona fide shell-shocked Viet vet…” That is a line from the...
Sure, Rambo might have loved the M60E3 machine gun. But what works in the movies doesn’t always mean success on the battlefield: One of...
Decades ago on March 12, 1968, a top-secret U.S. base on a mountain top in Laos was overrun by an elite force of Vietnamese...
What Made The A-7 Corsair II So Special? Merriam-Webster defines the word corsair as “PIRATE especially: a privateer of the Barbary Coast.” So then, when...
5 Deadliest Guns of Vietnam: During the Second Indo-China War—more commonly known today among Americans simply as the Vietnam War—the communist forces including the...
“Don’t give me an F-105. / ‘Cause I love being alive. She’s great for attack, she soaks all the more flak, / Don’t give me an...
The iconic B-52 is well known for carpet-bombing enemy areas of North Vietnam. The classic bomber has been upgraded so extensively that it is...
The F-4 Phantom II aircraft built its fame in Vietnam, bolstering it later in Iraq, in 1991, during Operation Desert Storm. During these wars,...
I always enjoy reading the works of my colleague Peter Suciu. But as they say, “If two people agree on everything, only one of...
Facts You Didn’t Know About the M16 – The United States Army announced on April 19, 2022, that it had awarded Sig Sauer a 10-year firm-fixed follow-on...