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In 1966, an SR-71 Blackbird Disintegrated at Mach 3.18. The Pilot Survived Without Ever Pulling His Ejection Handle
No missile ever touched it. No fighter ever caught it. And still a third of the fleet was destroyed — by the only force that could reach the world's fastest...
China Revived the Nuclear Weapon That Comes Over the South Pole. The Soviets Gave It Up by Treaty — This Time There’s No Treaty
The Soviets built it, SALT II banned it by name, and Moscow gave it up. In 2021, China flew it again — with a twist no one had demonstrated before....
S-400: How Russia’s Most Feared Air Defense System Broke an Alliance, Met Its Match in Ukraine, and Became a Bargaining Chip
Feared on reputation, bought as defiance — and now possibly traded away in Ankara. The twenty-year arc of Russia's most consequential weapons export. Meet the S-400.
In 1976, the Air Force Priced Out Turning the A-10 Warthog Into a Nuclear Bomber. The Memo Still Exists.
Tucked inside an answer about F-15s and F-16s was a price nobody requested: $15.9 million to make the A-10 a nuclear bomber. The memo survives in an Alabama archive —...
Thailand Owns the World’s Smallest Aircraft Carrier. It Has No Aircraft, Rarely Sails, and Includes a Royal Apartment
She cost $285 million, made Thailand Southeast Asia's only carrier power, and hasn't launched a jet since 2006. The Chakri Naruebet is easy to mock — until you understand what...
The Harpoon Missile at (Almost) 50: How a Cold War Whale-Hunter Became the Free World’s Ship-Killer, and Why It Refuses to Retire
The Harpoon's evolution ends up carrying a lesson bigger than one missile. It was born for a mission that vanished, remade by a single catastrophic sinking, standardized across an alliance,...
Britain Just Named Its Drone Wingman: Storm Fighter Will Fly Into Combat With the Typhoon, F-35, and Tempest
Three new combat drones, one day of announcements, and a claim no European air force has made before. Here's what Britain's Storm Fighter program is — and the six-month-old drone...
Flying the F-15C: What It Was Actually Like Inside the US Air Force Fighter That Never Lost
Every pilot's account begins with the push — a jet that could out-climb its own weight, straight up. As the last F-15Cs head for the boneyard, here's what it was...
It Takes the US Navy 12 Years to Build a Nuclear Attack Submarine
Ordered in 2014, commissioned in 2026: the dozen-year clock on America's newest submarines, and the two-yard bottleneck quietly setting the fleet's size.
The US Military Just Emptied a Third of Its Deepest Missile Magazine Into Iran — and the Pentagon’s Own Wargames Say the Next War Empties It in Days
More than a thousand Tomahawks have gone into Iran — the largest expenditure in the weapon's history, against an adversary with broken defenses. The Pentagon's own wargames already priced a...
First Steel Was Cut in 2011. She Joins the US Navy 2027. Why 1 American Aircraft Carrier Takes 16 Years
Sixteen years from first steel to the fleet — for a ship America once built in two. Follow the Kennedy through the yard and watch where the time goes.
Forget F-35s and Aircraft Carriers: The Mark 48 Torpedo Just Scored America’s First Submarine Kill Since World War II, and It May Be the Navy’s Most Important Weapon
In March 2026 a U.S. fast-attack submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena with a single Mark 48, the first American submarine torpedo sinking since World War II. The weapon...
Russia Can Afford the Ukraine War. It May Not Be Able to Afford Peace
Growth at 0.4 percent and a blown deficit look like pressure toward peace. Latham's case: four years of war built a political economy with constituents, from defense-plant wages to 10-million-ruble...
The US Air Force Just Doubled Its F-15EX Buy to 267 Jets. The Non-Stealth Eagle Now Costs About as Much as the Stealthy F-35 It Backs Up.
In one budget cycle the F-15EX program of record jumped from 129 aircraft to 267, the largest fighter-buy reversal in years. The jet was sold as the affordable complement to...
The U.S. Once Built an Aircraft Carrier Every Week. A Man Who Had Never Made a Warship Did It, Over the Navy’s Objections
The Navy didn't want them. The fleet mocked them. Then six of the little carriers found themselves alone in the path of Japan's main battle fleet — and turned it...
32 years ago this week, 20 fragments of a shattered comet slammed into Jupiter with the force of 300 million atomic bombs — humanity had never watched two Solar System bodies collide, and a NASA probe happened to have a ringside seat
In July 1994, astronomers watched something no human had ever seen: a comet colliding with a planet. Shoemaker-Levy 9 had already been torn apart by Jupiter's gravity into fragments branded...
81 years ago today, a 21-kiloton test in the New Mexico desert gave humanity the power to destroy itself — and in the eight decades since, no two nuclear-armed powers have ever fought a full-scale conventional war against each other
On July 16, 1945, in a stretch of New Mexico desert called the Jornada del Muerto, scientists of the Manhattan Project detonated a plutonium device code-named Gadget. Some had theorized...
57 years ago today, three astronauts lifted off atop a Saturn V aimed so precisely at the Moon that the trip needed just two course corrections — and the route home was a “free return,” designed to carry them back without the engines ever firing
Fifty-seven years ago today, on July 16, 1969, three astronauts sat atop a Saturn V and lifted off on the most dangerous flight ever attempted. The aim was so true...
28,000 Ton Mistake: Russia’s Admiral Nakhimov Nuclear Battlecrusier Took Almost 30 Years to Refit Could Get ‘Schooled’ by Cheap Drones and Missiles
The Soviet Union built the Kirov-class to sink American carriers with sheer missile weight. Russia has one hull left, and after a decade of modernization it carries new radar, electronic...
Canada Could Fly 88 F-35 Stealth Warplanes, JAS 39 Gripen and New GCAP Fighters
The Canadian F-35 saga has a new chapter: observer status in the Global Combat Air Program, the British-Japanese-Italian effort to build a sixth-generation successor to the Eurofighter Typhoon. The catch...