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2026
3 Reasons the US Navy’s Block IV Virginia-Class Submarine Might Be the Best on Planet Earthoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
Germany’s Battleship Bismarck Displaced More Than 50,000 Tons. A British Biplane That Flew Under 140 MPH Jammed Its Rudders.original ↗
27 Sept 2026
The US Navy Brought Back Just One Battleship for Vietnam. USS New Jersey Fired More 16-Inch Shells There Than in World War II and Korea Combined.original ↗
27 Sept 2026
Russia’s Yasen-M Class Nuclear Submarine Might Be the Biggest Threat to the US Navy Right Noworiginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
Sukhoi’s Su-37 Terminator Fighter Could Hit Mach 2.5 and Flip a Full 360 Degrees in a Tiny Patch of Sky. Only 1 Was Built and No Buyer Ever Paid to Put It Into Production.original ↗
27 Sept 2026
‘Once I’m Out of My Flare Bucket, I’m Gonna Get Shot by a Missile’: Why the US Army Awarded $4.8 Billion for Helicopter Lasersoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
It Took 80 Days to Find It: A US Air Force B-52 Bomber Collided Into a Tanker and Lost a Hydrogen Bomb in the Mediterranean in 1966original ↗
27 Sept 2026
It Takes $13,300,000,000 to Build, $6,000,000,000 In Research Costs Alone and over a Decade to Create Just 1 US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrieroriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
The US Air Force Almost Built a ‘Gray Ghost’ Stealth Fighter That Had Better Stealth Than the F-22 Raptor, Better Range But Was too Big of a Riskoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
The US Navy Almost Built a ‘Super’ F-14 Tomcat That Could Supercruise at Mach 1.3 and Hit Mach 2 Speeds With 1,600 Nautical Miles of Rangeoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
The P-51 Mustang Fought the Last Dogfight Between Propeller-Driven Fighters in 1969. A Honduran F4U Corsair Shot It Down.original ↗
27 Sept 2026
‘We Almost Made a Massive Error’: Why the US Navy Never Built Titanium Nuclear Attack Submarines Like Russiaoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
The US Navy Has No Way to Get Close to China Without Being Showered by Thousands of Missiles and Dronesoriginal ↗
27 Sept 2026
The Last Battleship Ever Built Didn’t Sail for the US Navy: The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard Was 51,000-Tons, Could Hit 30 Knots and Never Fired a Shot In Battleoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2026
93 Years Back, US Army General George Patton’s Line About Weapons and Men Is Still the Most Famous Quote in All of Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2026
‘It Flew Less than An Hour’: Russia’s MiG-1.44 Stealth Fighter Tried to Be the Mach 2 Fighter the F-22 Raptor Was Destined to Be and Never Had a Chanceoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2026
A Canadian Oberon-Class Diesel Submarine Built in the 1960s Worth About $80,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group. The $5,500,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Was ‘Sunk’.original ↗
26 Sept 2026
USS Long Beach: 2 Nuclear Reactors, 80,000 Horsepower, Unlimited Range, and Stacked with Missiles. The US Navy Does Not Operate a Single Nuclear Cruiser Today.original ↗
26 Sept 2026
Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s Magnetic Bomb Elevators Were Built to Lift 24,000 Pounds and They Have to Work. 68 Times Did Not Workoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2026
‘Problem After Problem’: The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt ‘Stealth’ Destroyers and Built Just Three. Their Guns Needed $1 Million Shells, and the Navy Couldn’t Afford to Fire Them.original ↗
26 Sept 2026
‘Fly the Engine’: The F-14 Tomcat Engine Problems Came from the Fact It Was Using F-111 Engines and It Almost Crippled Itoriginal ↗
26 Sept 2026
Iran Used a Old $1,500 Mine Designed in 1908 to Do $90 Million in Damage to a US Navy Warship and Nearly Sank Heroriginal ↗
26 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The SIG M250 Weighs About 13 Pounds Against the M249’s 17. The Gunner Still Ends Up Carrying 3.6 Pounds More and 200 Fewer Rounds, Because the 6.8mm Ammunition Is Heavier Than the Gun Is Lighter.original ↗
26 Sept 2026
This Photo Could Have Changed the US Air Force Forever: Meet the YF-23, and It Could Have ‘Replaced’ the F-22 Raptororiginal ↗
26 Sept 2026
26 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: ‘Never Heard a Grunt Ever Say He Prefers the M16A4’: Why Marines Traded the M16A4 for the M4original ↗
25 Sept 2026
The US Air Force Built 195 F-22s Instead of 750 and Destroyed the Tooling to Make More — Now China Has Exactly the Air Force the Raptor Was Designed to Defeatoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
‘The Flight Deck Was Too Short’: France Took 14 Years to Build Its Only Nuclear Aircraft Carrier and the Propeller Fell Offoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Stealth Fighter Down: $334,000,000 F-22 Raptor Was ‘Shot Down’ By Navy EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare Planeoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
25 Sept 2026
The US Navy Has Nothing Like It: Japan’s Sōryū-class Lithium-Ion Submarines Don’t Need Nuclear Power to Be a Powerhouse (Not Made in USA)original ↗
25 Sept 2026
The Navy Retired the ‘Hoover’ S-3 Viking in 2009 and Parked Dozens in the Arizona Boneyard. Critics Have Called It Short-Sighted Ever Since.original ↗
25 Sept 2026
‘Wobblin’ Goblin’: The F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter Was Designed to Allow the US Air Force to ‘Secretly Penetrate Defended Airspace’original ↗
25 Sept 2026
I Was a US Navy Anti-Submarine Warfare Operator: The Lockheed P-3 Orion Was the Ultimate Submarine Hunter That Made Russian Admiral Sweatoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
‘Built to Leak Jet Fuel’: Mach 3 US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Was Designed to Leak JP-7 Fuel on the Ground — The Fuselage Panels Sealed at Mach 3original ↗
25 Sept 2026
S-500: Russia’s New Missile System ‘Custom Built’ To Shoot Down US Air Force F-22 and F-35 Fightersoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
The Boeing X-32 Stealth Fighter Still Haunts the US Military, Lockheed Martin, and the F-35original ↗
25 Sept 2026
The Last SR-71 Blackbird Flight Was a NASA Jet in 1999 at Mach 3.21. NASA’s Chief Just Hinted at a ‘Return’ to High and Fastoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Russia’s Su-47 Berkut First Flew 29 Years Ago Today With Its Wings Swept Forward. Only One Was Ever Built.original ↗
25 Sept 2026
25 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: I Carried the M249 SAW. It Was Lighter Than the M60, but Its Time Has Come.original ↗
25 Sept 2026
Only 2 F-16XLs Were Ever Built — One Flew Alongside an SR-71 Blackbird to Help NASA Measure Sonic Boomsoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Ruger GP100 Has No Sideplate and Is ‘Built Like a Tank’. That’s Why It Has Eaten .357 Magnum Since 1985.original ↗
25 Sept 2026
German Pilots ‘Shot Down’ US Air Force F-22 Raptors in 2012 — They Also Admitted They Couldn’t Get Within 20 Miles of One in Real Combatoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
At 7,346 MPH, the X-43A Crossed Atlantic Distance in 25 Minutes — 22 Years Later, Nobody Has Built Anything Faster That Can Touch Itoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
China’s Big Plan to Sink U.S. Navy Nuclear Ford-Class and Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers Boils Down to Simple 1 Wordoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
70,000 Feet and Mach 3 Performance Like No Other Bomber: The Sad Ending for the US Air Force XB-70 Valkyrieoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Russia Spent Years Building the MiG 1.44 to Beat the USAF F-22 Raptor — It Flew Once for 18 Minutes in 2000 and Was Mothballed Foreveroriginal ↗
25 Sept 2026
Britain’s Only Nuclear Weapon Has Failed Its Last 2 Test Launches. A Trident Missile From Royal Navy Submarine HMS Vengeance Veered Off Course in June 2016 and Was Destroyed. One From HMS Vanguard Fell Into the Atlantic on January 30, 2024. The 2016 Failure Was Not Disclosed Until After Parliament Had Voted to Renew the System.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
‘Big Mistake’: The US Navy Built 3 Zumwalt-Class Destroyers Around a Gun That Fired a Shell Costing Close to $1,000,000. Standard NATO 155mm Artillery Ammunition Runs About $3,000 a Round. The Navy Never Bought a Single Shell and Has Now Cut the Guns Out of the Ships.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Even 82 Years Later, Patton’s Best US Army Line on Death Is Still the Greatest Quote in Military History for a Clear Reasonoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Breaking All the Rules: The US Air Force’s A-10 Warthog Was Circling the Drain But the Iran War Proved It Wasn’t Ready for Retirement Just Yetoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Stealth Surprise at 3600 Degrees: 100,000-Ton Nuclear US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Is Missing F-35C Fightersoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Boeing Built Just 1 Stealth YF-118FG ‘Bird of Prey’ for $67,000,000 and Flew It 38 Times at 300 Miles per Hour. It Never Carried a Weapon or a Radar.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Canada’s First Lockheed F-35 Fighter (Or CF-35) Is Now Flying in the Skies High Above Texas. But It Could All Do Downhill From Hereoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
‘A More Capable and Lethal Carrier’: USS John F. Kennedy Will Be Built for the F-35C. Supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford Was Not.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
USS Nimitz Was Supposed to Retire in May After 51 Years. Its Replacement, USS John F. Kennedy, Is Late, So It Serves Until March 2027.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
The First US Air Force F-35 Stealth Fighters Needed ‘Chilled Fuel’ If Temps On Flight Day Were over 80°F: A Lockheed Martin Flightline Quality Assurance Manager Explained Whyoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
An Investigation Uncovered All Propeller Shafts on 65,000-Ton HMS Prince of Wales Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier Had Been Misaligned When the Aircraft Carrier Was Constructedoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
A ‘Floating Porcupine’: Russia’s Kirov-Class Battlecrusier Admiral Nakhimov Is 28,000 Tons of Missiles But One Missile Could Send It To The Bottomoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
USS Nimitz makes 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day and in September 2022 that water tasted like JP-5 jet fuel and sickened 11 sailors off Southern California after residue sat in an unused tank for about 18 months before the carrier sailed again on October 2original ↗
24 Sept 2026
Decades Ago, US Army General George Patton’s Advice on Leadership Remains One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO and Carried a Rifle for a Living: The US Army Spent Billions on the M7 Rifle. Soldiers Made It Clear They Did Not Like Carrying Itoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The .950 JDJ Fires a Half-Pound Bullet With Three Times the Energy of a .50 BMG, and It’s Legaloriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
‘Hit But No Boom’: Investigations Proved that For Nearly 2 Years US Navy Submarines During World War II Fired Torpedoes That ‘Frequently Failed’original ↗
24 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Glock 44 Makes You Better With Your Glock 19. I Still Wouldn’t Carry It.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
‘Self Destruct Mode Installed’: A US Navy Nuclear Powered Submarine Collected 13 Navy Expeditionary Medals and 2 Presidential Unit Citations and No One Knows Exactly Why Besides the Sub Was Some Sort of Underwater Spyoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Investigation Reveals $3,200,000,000 In Damage: A 40,000-Ton US Navy Amphibious Assault Ship Caught Fire and It Took Days to Put Out. The Navy Was Forced to Scrap the Ship in Texasoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
‘Those Days are Over”: The US Air Force Admits It Must Completely Change How it Fights Thanks to the Iran and Ukraine Warsoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
I’d Love a 10mm, but as a Former Green Beret I Stick With 9mm. The Ammo Math and the FBI’s Own Hit Rates Explain Why.original ↗
24 Sept 2026
‘She Broke Free’: The CIA Used a Cover Story to Recover a Chunk of a Russian Ballistic Submarine Armed with Nuclear Warheads But Part of the Sub Slid Back Below the Wavesoriginal ↗
24 Sept 2026
Two Bombs, over 800 dead, the Ship Listing 13 Degrees with Her Own Ordnance Cooking Off: US Navy Essex-Class Aircraft Carrier Survived What Seems Like Impossible Oddsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
‘I heard a shout and turned round to see an F-16 on fire’: An F-16 Fighter crashed at Nellis and hydrazine from its emergency unit trapped an RAF Vulcan crew inside the bomberoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
‘The Math Doesn’t Work’: The US Navy Spent $800,000,000 Million on Trying to Repair a Nuclear Attack Submarine That Was Delayed So Long It Made Sense to Cancel and Retire the Suboriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
81 Years Later, General Anthony McAuliffe’s 1-Word Reply to a German Surrender Demand Is Still the Greatest Rebuttal in US Army Historyoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
An Israeli Air Force F-15D Lost Almost Its Entire Right Wing in a Midair Collision Over the Negev on May 1, 1983. The Pilot Did Not Know It Was Gone. He Landed at About 250 Knots Against a Normal 130, and Only Saw the Damage After He Opened the Canopy.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Sorry, F-35: South Korea’s Air Force Takes Delivery of its First Stealthy KF-21 Boramae Fighteroriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
‘Major Milestone’: The US Military Just Ordered 4,000 one-way attack UAVs with Single-Operator Drone Swarm Controloriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
‘Slow-Motion Defeat’: Iran Found the Weak Spot in U.S. Power, and It Wasn’t Aircraft Carriers or Fighter Jets. It Was the Bases.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Water in three sensors wrecked the B-2 Spirit of Kansas, tail 89-0127, and the US Air Force priced that Guam crash at $1,407,006,920, calling it the most expensive aircraft crash on record, after the bomber rotated too slow at Andersen on February 23, 2008original ↗
23 Sept 2026
A Civilian Sandblaster Set Fire to a Bag of Rags Aboard the Nuclear Attack Submarine USS Miami on May 23, 2012 Because He Wanted to Leave Work Early. It Burned for 10 Hours. Repairs Came to $700,000,000, the US Navy Scrapped the Submarine, and He Got 17 Years.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
The US Navy Beached the 27,500-Ton Battleship USS Nevada at Pearl Harbor After 6 Bomb Hits and 1 Torpedo. She Was Repaired, Shelled Normandy on D-Day, Survived 2 Atomic Bombs at Bikini, Then Took 5 Days of Naval Gunfire Before 1 Aerial Torpedo Finally Sank Her on July 31, 1948.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
A US Air Force F-106 Delta Dart Went Into a Flat Spin at 35,000 Feet Over Montana on February 2, 1970. The Pilot Ejected at 15,000 Feet. The Aircraft Recovered on Its Own, Landed in a Snow-Covered Field, and Flew for 16 More Years.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO and I Never Liked the Beretta M9. The US Army Carried It From February 1985 to 2017. The New $1,249 M9A4 Finally Cuts the Slide for a Red Dot and Still Weighs 33.4 Ounces Empty.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: I Have Fired the M24, Which Is Built on a Remington 700 Action. The Rifle Is Still Good. The Company Settled a Class Action Covering About 7,500,000 Rifles, Went Bankrupt in 2020, and Closed the Ilion Plant in 2024 After More Than 200 Years.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: I Carried a Carbine-Gassed M4 Carbine for a Living and Learned to Live With the Snap. The New Smith & Wesson M&P15 Sport III Runs a Mid-Length Gas System on a 16-Inch Barrel, and It Shoots Softer Because of It.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
The ‘Greatest’ Tank That Almost Was: The US Army’s M1A2 SEPv4 Abrams Would Have Been Helpless Against Drones and Only 7 Will Ever Be Builtoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
The Imperial Japanese Navy Built the 72,000-Ton Yamato With 9 18.1-Inch Guns, the Largest Ever Mounted on Any Warship. They Never Fired on an American Battleship. About 390 US Navy Aircraft Sank Her in Roughly 2 Hours on April 7, 1945.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Canik METE SFT Sits Between a Glock 19 and a Glock 17 on Size, Beats Both on Capacity at 18 Rounds, and Undercuts Both on Price at About $340.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
Decades Later, General Douglas MacArthur’s Inspirational Line on Compassion Is the Best US Army Quote in All of Military Historyoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
‘This Is Not a New or Standalone Recruitment Program’: Some US Army Pilots Cut from Flying Can Transfer to the US Navy. But Not All.original ↗
23 Sept 2026
The US Army Could Soon Make Some Big Changes to the Uniform: That Could Mean Baseball Caps and Boonie Hatsoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
US Military Quote of the Week by US Army General George S. Patton: “Nobody ever defended anything successfully; there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”original ↗
22 Sept 2026
Challenger 3 vs. M1 Abrams SEPv3 Could Be a Coin Flip If They Ever Had To Fight Each Other in What Would Be the Ultimate Tank Battleoriginal ↗
22 Sept 2026