The F-16N Viper, a version of the F-16 Fighting Falcon operated by the US Air Force, was procured by the US Navy for use as an aggressor aircraft in air combat training, simulating the capabilities of fourth-generation Soviet fighters. The F-16N was the…
In 1941, a problem had emerged within the German military. Both armored units and supply units were moving faster than before. While tanks, armored vehicles, and trucks advanced along the roads, enemy aircraft would strike from above. Although anti-aircraft guns themselves…
Responding to the US Army Air Forces’ requirement for a strategic bomber with intercontinental range, Consolidated Vultee (later Convair) designed the B-36 during World War II. The airplane made its maiden flight in August 1946, and in June 1948 the Strategic Air…
In the Song-Kitty Hawk Incident, a Chinese submarine revealed itself within the defense perimeter of a U.S. aircraft carrier. What would you like to watch today? US vs China Warships: 'We've Been Cut in Half, and They Have Doubled' Since 1986, Says…
Summary and Key Points: Former Navy EA-18G Growler pilot Adam Daymude says a WWII P-51 Mustang would handily beat the F-117 Nighthawk in a dogfight. The stealth jet, first flown in 1981, carried no cannon and no air-to-air missiles and needed a flight…
On June 29, 1987, an SR-71 lost an engine to an explosion over the Baltic with Soviet airspace to its right, fell from 80,000 to 25,000 feet, and was met over Gotland by two Swedish Viggens while Soviet fighters had orders to force it…
The Russian Pacific Fleet’s ballistic missile submarine Generalissimo Suvorov fired a Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from beneath the Sea of Okhotsk on Oct. 28, sending it across the country to the Chizha test range in the Arkhangelsk region, the Russian Defense…
The B-2: Ten major upgrades in the late 2010s multiplied its onboard processing power 1,000 times, rebuilt its Defensive Management System with automated route replanning, raised its JDAM capacity from 16 to 80, and fitted it for the 30,000-pound GBU-57 it dropped on Iran’s nuclear…
Thousands of people protested against an appearance by Björn Höcke, the leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the central state of Thuringia, on Tuesday evening. Calls for the protest in the city of Jena came from the two…
Royal Navy nuclear submarine HMS Vanguard (file image)(Image: PA) Three of Britain's four nuclear deterrent submarines are reportedly out at sea in an "unusual" move, with at least one understood to be carrying ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads.
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