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The A-10 Warthog Was Designed to Destroy Soviet Tanks in the Fulda Gap With a 30mm GAU-8 Cannon. In the Iran War It Used That Same Gun Against Drones and Missiles Over the Gulf, and in April 2026 the Air Force Reversed Its Early Phase-Out and Kept 3 Squadrons Until 2030.
6+ hour, 12+ min ago (1103+ words) The Air Force has wanted this aircraft dead for over a decade. Then it spent a war shooting down drones with a gun built in the 1970s to kill armor. When the Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II (the “Warthog”) first took to…...
"It Can't Fire a Gun and Doesn't Carry a Bomb." That Was the Air Force Chief of Staff on the SR-71 Blackbird, an Aircraft With 17,300 Sorties and Zero Losses to Enemy Fire.
6+ hour, 14+ min ago (1683+ words) Across its life the SR-71 Blackbird program flew 53,490 hours over 17,300 sorties, including 11,675 hours above Mach 3 — a record of production no other reconnaissance aircraft has approached. The airframe never lost a mission, never lost an aircraft to hostile fire, and still…...
The Pentagon Cut the B-2 Bomber Program From $75,400,000,000 to $61,100,000,000 and Made Every Aircraft More Expensive. Cutting the Order From 132 to 21 Nearly Quadrupled the Cost per Bomber.
6+ hour, 47+ min ago (846+ words) What the money bought when it came to the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber: Four General Electric F118s at 17,300 pounds of thrust each, a 172-foot wingspan, 336,500 pounds maximum takeoff weight, 167,000 pounds of fuel and 60,000 pounds of payload, 6,000 nautical miles without a tanker, above…...
$850,000,000 Australian Submarine ‘Sank’ a $5,500,000,000 US Navy Nuclear Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier and 2 Nuclear Attack Submarines by Evading a Fleet of Warships and ‘Penetrating the Screen’
7+ hour, 13+ min ago (1028+ words) A nuclear submarine cannot switch off its reactor, which means coolant pumps, a steam plant and reduction gears are always turning. A diesel-electric boat shuts down its engines underwater and runs on batteries alone. At low speed the noise it…...
At 75,000 Feet an SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Could See the Horizon 335 Miles Away and Make Out the Curvature of the Earth. He Could Also See the Contrail of the Soviet Fighter Coming for Him, 100 Miles Out.
7+ hour, 41+ min ago (289+ words) A Soviet pilot's logbook later recorded 14 successful SR-71 Blackbird intercepts between August 1984 and January 1987. One of them is dated October 6, 1986....
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO. The Glock 23 Is an Excellent Pistol and I Am Not a Fan of the.40 S&W Cartridge It Fires.
14+ hour, 28+ min ago (807+ words) Glock 23: Same compact frame as a Glock 19, 13+1 rounds, a striker-fired action with few moving parts, and thirty-six years of continuous production behind it — which means holsters, sights, magazines and triggers are everywhere and cheap. Owners routinely report tens of thousands…...
On April 26, 1971 an SR-71 Blackbird Flew More Than 15,000 Miles in 10 Hours and 30 Minutes With 5 Aerial Refuelings. The Limit Was Not Fuel, Not the Engines, and Not the Crew. It Was 212 Liters of Liquid Nitrogen.
15+ hour, 1+ min ago (515+ words) The SR-71 Blackbird fuel tanks were bare titanium with no bladders — nothing in the 1960s survived the heat. Nitrogen filled the space above the JP-7 so there was no oxygen left to ignite....
Seaman First Class Calvin Graham Was 12 Years Old Aboard the 45,233-Ton Battleship USS South Dakota at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 14-15 November 1942. Japanese Shellfire Killed 40 of Her Crew That Night.
15+ hour, 32+ min ago (267+ words) USS South Dakota lost electrical power, took repeated hits, and did not score. Twelve miles away, the USS Washington sank the Kirishima — the only one-on-one battleship kill of the American war....
A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus Boom Jammed in the Receptacle of an F-22 Raptor 100 Miles Off Virginia on July 8, 2025, Struck the Tanker After the Aircraft Separated, and Broke Off Into the Atlantic. The Air Force Put the Damage at $9,980,000.
17+ hour, 45+ min ago (684+ words) On May 12 the Air Force and Boeing announced a readiness plan with an unusual first item: five early-production KC-46s that were not due in operational service until 2031 will instead be broken up for spare parts and test support. The Air…...
The German WWII Panzer VIII Maus Tannk Was Specified at 100 Tonnes, Redrawn at 120, and Came Out Near 190. Hitler Ordered 5 Before the Design Was Finished and Wanted 10 a Month. Germany Completed 2 Prototypes, and Neither Ever Fought.
18+ hour, 2+ min ago (547+ words) The Soviets found both Maus tank wrecks, took the good turret off one and the good hull off the other, and welded them into a single working tank. It is still on display....