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56,966 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89e3a6dd1f", "title": "82 Years Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line On Battle Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/82-years-later-general-george-pattons-best-us-army-line-on-battle-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-18T17:47:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89e48f0b20", "title": "Saved from the Chopping Block: The US Air Force B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Are Getting A Massive Upgrade", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/saved-from-the-chopping-block-the-us-air-force-b-1b-lancer-and-b-2-spirit-stealth-bombers-are-getting-a-massive-upgrade/", "published_at": "2026-09-18T17:35:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89e56a9a3a", "title": "The 27,0000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Texas Will Soon Finish A Massive Reboot and Complete a Historic 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Yamato-Class Battleship That Was the Largest Ever Built During WWII", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/it-took-19-torpedoes-and-10-bombs-to-destroy-a-70000-ton-yamato-class-battleship-that-was-the-largest-ever-built-during-wwii/", "published_at": "2026-09-18T13:13:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89e855727f", "title": "The F-4 Phantom Is Considered One of the Best Fighter Planes the US Military Ever Flew and Iran Had a Fleet of 225", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-f-4-phantom-is-considered-one-of-the-best-fighter-planes-the-us-military-ever-flew-and-iran-had-a-fleet-of-225/", "published_at": "2026-09-18T12:18:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89e88a6387", "title": "China Is Building Nuclear Submarines and Aircraft Carriers Faster Than the US Navy Ever Dreamed Possible", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/china-is-building-nuclear-submarines-and-aircraft-carriers-faster-than-the-us-navy-ever-dreamed-possible/", 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Attack Submarine Is Going to Be Out of Action Indefinitely", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-royal-navys-hms-astute-nuclear-attack-submarine-is-going-to-be-out-of-action-indefinitely/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T22:40:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89ea21df5b", "title": "213 Years Ago, Captain James Lawrence US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in US Military Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/213-years-ago-captain-james-lawrence-us-navy-line-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-us-military-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T22:26:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89eb0eb904", "title": "Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Oil and Gas Leverage Could Start to Slip Away", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/irans-strait-of-hormuz-oil-and-gas-leverage-could-start-to-slip-away/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T20:49:12+00:00" }, { "id": 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"https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-japanese-navy-sent-the-yamato-the-biggest-battleship-ever-on-a-one-way-attack-mission-to-fight-the-us-navy-and-she-would-never-come-back-home/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T19:43:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89ec0f71ad", "title": "The New F-16G Fighting Falcon Fighter Has a Message for the US Air Force", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-new-f-16g-fighting-falcon-fighter-has-a-message-for-the-us-air-force/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T18:50:51+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89ece481a0", "title": "U.N. Report Finds ‘Reasonable Grounds’ for U.S. War Crimes, Iranian Crimes Against Humanity", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/u-n-report-finds-reasonable-grounds-for-u-s-war-crimes-iranian-crimes-against-humanity/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T18:10:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89ed35bfea", "title": "The US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Summed Up In Just 2 Words", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-navys-littoral-combat-ship-summed-up-in-just-2-words/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T17:59:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89edd78742", "title": "The F-22 was designed for short fights over Europe and the United States built 183 of them; the J-20 was designed for the Pacific, already numbers about 500, and China is adding roughly 120 a year — more than 800 F-35s are in service, and they still cannot reopen a Raptor line", "url": 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"https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-f-15ex-eagle-ii-can-carry-29500-pounds-of-payload-and-up-to-12-amraams-it-just-dropped-live-bombs-from-an-operational-squadron-for-the-first-time-and-the-air-force-wants-to-grow-the-fleet-from/", "published_at": "2026-09-17T11:55:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89f1b62f98", "title": "Australia’s Collins-Class Submarine Have No Choice But To Keep Going – No Matter What", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/australias-collins-class-submarine-have-no-choice-but-to-keep-going-no-matter-what/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T23:20:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89f219b205", "title": "A French Rubis-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine Built in the 1970’s ‘Sunk’ a 100,000-Ton Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-french-rubis-class-nuclear-attack-submarine-built-in-the-1970s-sunk-a-100000-ton-nimitz-class-nuclear-aircraft-carrier/", "published_at": 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That Weight Is Not Styling. It Is the Reason You Can Shoot a Full Cylinder of .44 Magnum and Still Be on Target for the 6th Round.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am-a-retired-us-army-special-forces-nco-the-colt-anaconda-weighs-between-47-and-59-ounces-depending-on-the-barrel-that-weight-is-not-styling-it-is-the-reason-you-can-shoot-a-full-cylinder-of-44/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T19:11:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89f5810dcd", "title": "2 US Army Delta Force Snipers Circling a Crashed Black Hawk Over Mogadishu on October 3, 1993, Asked to Be Put on the Ground to Defend the Wounded Crew, Were Refused Twice, Were Granted the Request on the Third Attempt, and Were Both Killed Holding a Position They Already Knew They Could Not Hold", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/2-us-army-delta-force-snipers-circling-a-crashed-black-hawk-over-mogadishu-on-october-3-1993-asked-to-be-put-on-the-ground-to-defend-the-wounded-crew-were-refused-twice-were-granted-the-request-on/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T18:50:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e73d-45dd-700c-9bbf-ec89f607fe26", "title": "I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: Factory .44 Magnum Makes About 800 Foot-Pounds Out of a Ruger Super Blackhawk. Ruger Got There by Adding 8 Ounces of Steel to a Gun That Was Already Punishing, and Selling It for Less Than the Smith & Wesson.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am-a-retired-us-army-special-forces-nco-factory-44-magnum-makes-about-800-foot-pounds-out-of-a-ruger-super-blackhawk-ruger-got-there-by-adding-8-ounces-of-steel-to-a-gun-that-was-already-punishin/", "published_at": "2026-09-16T18:29:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e74c-b6dd-73d4-82a2-cba4e6cde553", "title": "Iran Ordered 80 Made in the USA F-14 Tomcat Fighters Under the Shah and Took Delivery of 79 Before the 1979 Revolution. By 1986 Only 25 Were Still Operational. 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Russia’s Admiral Nakhimov Nuclear Battlecruiser Will Carry 176. 1 of Those 2 Ships Is Real, and It Has Been in the Yard for 25 Years.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-trump-class-battleship-would-carry-128-mk-41-cells-russias-admiral-nakhimov-nuclear-battlecruiser-will-carry-176-1-of-those-2-ships-is-real-and-it-has-been-in-the-yard-for-25-years/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T16:05:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e74c-b6dd-73d4-82a2-cba4f8c2779c", "title": "78 Years Ago, Winston Churchill’s Line on Delaying a War Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/78-years-ago-winston-churchills-line-on-delaying-a-war-is-still-the-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T15:24:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e74c-b6dd-73d4-82a2-cba4f9a83c96", "title": "Iowa vs. Yamato: America’s and Japan’s Best Battleships, Head to Head", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/iowa-vs-yamato-americas-and-japans-best-battleships-head-to-head/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T15:08:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e74c-b6dd-73d4-82a2-cba4faa7a404", "title": "Donald Trump Needs to Bring Concessions if He Wants a Deal with North Korea", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/donald-trump-needs-to-bring-concessions-if-he-wants-a-deal-with-north-korea/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T14:48:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e74c-b6dd-73d4-82a2-cba4fae6abe5", "title": "I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Smith & Wesson Model 460 Fires a 200-Grain Bullet at 2,330 Feet Per Second for More Than 2,400 Foot-Pounds of Muzzle Energy. With a Scope on It You Can Hunt Deer at 200 Yards With a Handgun.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am-a-retired-us-army-special-forces-nco-the-smith-wesson-model-460-fires-a-200-grain-bullet-at-2330-feet-per-second-for-more-than-2400-foot-pounds-of-muzzle-energy-with-a-scope-on-it-you-can-h/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T14:19:18+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e74c-b6dd-73d4-82a2-cba4fb3c775f", "title": "Putin Faces An Uncertain Future When the Ukraine War Ends", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/putin-faces-an-uncertain-future-when-the-ukraine-war-ends/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T13:43:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005819a3cc", "title": "Canada Scored the Lockheed Martin F-35A at 57.1 Out of 60 Points for Military Capability in Its 2021 Fighter Competition. The Saab Gripen E Scored 19.8. On Mission Performance It Was 97 Percent Against 22 Percent, and Ottawa Is Still Considering Buying Both.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/canada-scored-the-lockheed-martin-f-35a-at-57-1-out-of-60-points-for-military-capability-in-its-2021-fighter-competition-the-saab-gripen-e-scored-19-8-on-mission-performance-it-was-97-percent-agains/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T12:00:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae0058e1846c", "title": "South Korea Has Put $74,400,000 Into an 8,000-Ton Nuclear Submarine Due in the Mid-2030s. It Has Never Operated a Naval Reactor.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/south-korea-has-put-74400000-into-an-8000-ton-nuclear-submarine-due-in-the-mid-2030s-it-has-never-operated-a-naval-reactor/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T11:48:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae00590df4ae", "title": "Boeing Built One 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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/boeing-built-one-yf-118fg-bird-of-prey-for-67000000-and-flew-it-38-times-at-300-miles-per-hour-it-never-carried-a-weapon-or-a-radar/", "published_at": "2026-09-15T11:33:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005940ea8d", "title": "The Former Canadian CF-18 Pilot Who Said in 2011 That the F-35 Was “Not the Right Plane for Canada” Is Now the Minister Deciding How Many Canada Buys. Stephen Fuhr Has Committed to 16 of the 88 Jets Ottawa Announced.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-former-canadian-cf-18-pilot-who-said-in-2011-that-the-f-35-was-not-the-right-plane-for-canada-is-now-the-minister-deciding-how-many-canada-buys-stephen-fuhr-has-committed-to-16-of-the-88-jets/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T23:47:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae0059de2142", "title": "The US Army Has a $17,040,000,000 Abrams Upgrade Program. Now It Says the 73-Ton Tank Can’t Take Another Upgrade and Is Building a New One.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-army-has-a-17040000000-abrams-upgrade-program-now-it-says-the-73-ton-tank-cant-take-another-upgrade-and-is-building-a-new-one/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T23:34:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005a4eb519", "title": "All 5 of the Royal Navy’s In-Service Astute-Class Nuclear Attack Submarines Were Tied Up Alongside at the Same Time in Late June 2026, 1 of Them Stripped of Parts to Keep the Other 4 Running. The Class Will Take 28 Years to Deliver 7 Boats.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/all-5-of-the-royal-navys-in-service-astute-class-nuclear-attack-submarines-were-tied-up-alongside-at-the-same-time-in-late-june-2026-1-of-them-stripped-of-parts-to-keep-the-other-4-running-the-cla/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T23:07:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005b374891", "title": "The Pentagon Is Paying $24,290,000,000 for 296 F-35 Fighters. The Engines Were Not Included. With Them, One F-35A Now Costs $92,000,000.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-pentagon-is-paying-24290000000-for-296-f-35-fighters-the-engines-were-not-included-with-them-one-f-35a-now-costs-92000000/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T22:49:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005b64d853", "title": "Ukraine’s F-16s Have Shot Down 2,500 Russian Drones in Two Years. Now Pilots Are Using the 20mm Cannon Because Missiles Are Running Low.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/ukraines-f-16s-have-shot-down-2500-russian-drones-in-two-years-now-pilots-are-using-the-20mm-cannon-because-missiles-are-running-low/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T22:23:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005be4b740", "title": "Investigators Are Studying Why the US Navy’s Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Was Hit With a Massive Fire and If It Could Have Been Prevented", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/investigators-are-studying-why-the-us-navys-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-uss-gerald-r-ford-was-hit-with-a-massive-fire-and-if-it-could-have-been-prevented/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T22:05:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005c360d6f", "title": "21 Years Ago, Apple Founder Steve Jobs Advice on Time and ‘Living Someone Else’s Life’ Is the Truth Serum That Still Shapes Our World", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/21-years-ago-apple-founder-steve-jobs-advice-on-time-and-living-someone-elses-life-is-the-truth-serum-that-still-shapes-our-world/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T19:57:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005c50a48c", "title": "A US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Came Apart Around Pilot Bill Weaver at Mach 3.2 and 78,000 Feet. He Never Pulled the Handle — the Aircraft Threw Him Out. He Survived and Was Flying Again 2 Weeks Later.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-us-air-force-sr-71-blackbird-came-apart-around-pilot-bill-weaver-at-mach-3-2-and-78000-feet-he-never-pulled-the-handle-the-aircraft-threw-him-out-he-survived-and-was-flying-again-2-week/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T19:44:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005ca255fb", "title": "86 Years Ago, Winston Churchill’s Line on Victory in War Is Still the One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/86-years-ago-winston-churchills-line-on-victory-in-war-is-still-the-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T19:21:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005d8136ba", "title": "Ukraine’s Fire Point Is Building 2 Ballistic Missiles of Its Own. The FP-7 Reaches 200 Kilometres With a 150-Kilogram Warhead. The Longer-Ranged FP-9 Could Strike 600 to 800 Kilometres Into Russia Within Minutes.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/ukraines-fire-point-is-building-2-ballistic-missiles-of-its-own-the-fp-7-reaches-200-kilometres-with-a-150-kilogram-warhead-the-longer-ranged-fp-9-could-strike-600-to-800-kilometres-into-russia-wi/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T19:07:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005e58a1af", "title": "The Youngest B-52 Was Built in 1962 and the US Air Force Plans to Fly It Until 2050 — 88 Years in Service. In Early March 2026, B-52s Struck Ballistic Missile Sites Inside Iran for the First Time.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-youngest-b-52-was-built-in-1962-and-the-us-air-force-plans-to-fly-it-until-2050-88-years-in-service-in-early-march-2026-b-52s-struck-ballistic-missile-sites-inside-iran-for-the-first-t/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T18:51:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e2-714b-904b-ae005ee35ceb", "title": "A Russian Attack Drone Struck a Locomotive at Yahodyn on 14 September, 1.2 Miles From the Polish Border, Minutes After a Train Carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and EU Security Advisers Had Passed Through. Passengers on the Train That Was Hit Got About 15 Minutes of Warning.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-russian-attack-drone-struck-a-locomotive-at-yahodyn-on-14-september-1-2-miles-from-the-polish-border-minutes-after-a-train-carrying-boris-johnson-carl-bildt-and-eu-security-advisers-had-passed-th/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T18:25:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0a2befd6", "title": "Sorry, F-35: South Korea Flew 6 KF-21 Boramae Prototypes on Nearly 1,600 Sorties Over 42 Months and Declared Development Complete in July 2026.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/sorry-f-35-south-korea-flew-6-kf-21-boramae-prototypes-on-nearly-1600-sorties-over-42-months-and-declared-development-complete-in-july-2026/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T18:04:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0ab4a40d", "title": "Russia Landed Venera 12 on Venus on December 21, 1978 and Venera 11 on December 25. Both Survived 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and Roughly 90 Atmospheres of Pressure. Neither Returned a Single Photograph, Because the Lens Caps Failed to Eject on Both.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/russia-landed-venera-12-on-venus-on-december-21-1978-and-venera-11-on-december-25-both-survived-870-degrees-fahrenheit-and-roughly-90-atmospheres-of-pressure-neither-returned-a-single-photograph-b/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T17:36:06+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0b8e30bd", "title": "Russia Commissioned the Nuclear Battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov in 1986 and Sent Her to the Yard at Severodvinsk in 1999. She Came Out in 2025. She Has Now Spent Roughly Twice as Long Being Repaired as She Ever Spent in Service, at a Cost of About $5,000,000,000.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/russia-commissioned-the-nuclear-battlecruiser-admiral-nakhimov-in-1986-and-sent-her-to-the-yard-at-severodvinsk-in-1999-she-came-out-in-2025-she-has-now-spent-roughly-twice-as-long-being-repaired-as/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T17:19:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0c797d62", "title": "Royal Navy Nuclear Missile Submarine HMS Vanguard Spent About 89 Months in Refit at Devonport. It Had Taken 83 Months to Build Her. Her 3 Sisters Averaged 42 Months for the Same Overhaul, and She Came Home in March From a 204-Day Patrol — the Longest in Royal Navy History.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/royal-navy-nuclear-missile-submarine-hms-vanguard-spent-about-89-months-in-refit-at-devonport-it-had-taken-83-months-to-build-her-her-3-sisters-averaged-42-months-for-the-same-overhaul-and-she-came/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T17:03:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0ca5ad2b", "title": "I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Smith & Wesson Model 500 Puts Out About 2,580 Foot-Pounds at the Muzzle and Kicks Roughly 3 Times Harder Than a .44 Magnum. It Is Not a Range Gun.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am-a-retired-us-army-special-forces-nco-the-smith-wesson-model-500-puts-out-about-2580-foot-pounds-at-the-muzzle-and-kicks-roughly-3-times-harder-than-a-44-magnum-it-is-not-a-range-gun/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T16:43:58+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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82 Years Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line On Battle Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Saved from the Chopping Block: The US Air Force B-1B Lancer and B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers Are Getting A Massive Upgradeoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
The 27,0000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Texas Will Soon Finish A Massive Reboot and Complete a Historic ‘Comeback’original ↗
18 Sept 2026
The US Air Force Would Be Getting a ‘Super’ F-16 In the F-16G Fighter By Lockheed Martinoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
What Iran and Ukraine Both Proved: A Middling Power Can Fight Forever and Gain Nothingoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Trump’s $24 Billion F-35 Stealth Fighter Sale to Saudi Arabia Won’t Solve the Houthi Problemoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
The Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-Class Aircraft Carriers Have Been a Giant Headache But the Fix Just Might Have Arrivedoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
Canada’s ‘Diesel’ Victoria-Class Submarine Summed Up in 4 Wordsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
It Took 19 Torpedoes and 10 Bombs to Destroy a 70,000-Ton Yamato-Class Battleship That Was the Largest Ever Built During WWIIoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
The F-4 Phantom Is Considered One of the Best Fighter Planes the US Military Ever Flew and Iran Had a Fleet of 225original ↗
18 Sept 2026
China Is Building Nuclear Submarines and Aircraft Carriers Faster Than the US Navy Ever Dreamed Possibleoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
162 Years Ago, Admiral David Glasgow Farragut Best Line Is Still the Greatest Quote in All of US Navy Historyoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
There Is an SR-71 Blackbird Sitting In a Museum in Warner Robins, Georgia That Hit 2,193.167 MPH and Still Holds the Speed Record for Air-Breathing, Manned Aircraftoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Royal Navy’s HMS Astute Nuclear Attack Submarine Is Going to Be Out of Action Indefinitelyoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
213 Years Ago, Captain James Lawrence US Navy Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in US Military Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Oil and Gas Leverage Could Start to Slip Awayoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Shah of Iran bought 79 F-14 Tomcats from the United States in 1976, three years before the revolution; after 2006 they were the last of the type still flying, the Pentagon shredded its own so parts could not reach Tehran, and this March Israel said it had destroyed the remainder on the ground at Isfahanoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Japanese Navy Sent the Yamato, the Biggest Battleship Ever, On a One Way Attack Mission to Fight the US Navy and She Would Never Come Back Homeoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The New F-16G Fighting Falcon Fighter Has a Message for the US Air Forceoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
U.N. Report Finds ‘Reasonable Grounds’ for U.S. War Crimes, Iranian Crimes Against Humanityoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Summed Up In Just 2 Wordsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The F-22 was designed for short fights over Europe and the United States built 183 of them; the J-20 was designed for the Pacific, already numbers about 500, and China is adding roughly 120 a year — more than 800 F-35s are in service, and they still cannot reopen a Raptor lineoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Lockheed Martin, the company behind the F-35 and F-22, lost the Air Force’s sixth-generation jet to Boeing and is now pitching a new F-16 — a fourth-generation fighter the service stopped buying 20 years ago — because it needs 460 more jets by 2035 and cannot stand up new stealth lines fast enoughoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Royal Navy’s New Nuclear Dreadnought-Class Missile Submarines Summed Up In 4 Wordsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Britain budgeted £3.9 billion for two aircraft carriers, spent about £7.6 billion, then watched HMS Prince of Wales break down days after leaving Portsmouth, wreck a 22-ton propeller, and sit in the yard for nine months — at times the Royal Navy has had neither ship availableoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Royal Navy’s Type 45 Destroyer Problems Summed Up in 4 Wordsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
23 Years Ago, General James Mattis’s Best US Marine Corps Line Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Putin Is Using Russia’s Election to Recruit for the War in Ukraineoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The Biggest Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Fleet on Planet Earth Is About to Get the Most Advanced Supercarrier Ever Designedoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Russia’s New ‘Diesel’ Lada-Class Submarine Summed Up in 4 Wordsoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
The F-15EX Eagle II Can Carry 29,500 Pounds of Payload and Up to 12 AMRAAMs. It Just Dropped Live Bombs From an Operational Squadron for the First Time, and the Air Force Wants to Grow the Fleet From 129 Jets to 267.original ↗
17 Sept 2026
Australia’s Collins-Class Submarine Have No Choice But To Keep Going – No Matter Whatoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
A French Rubis-Class Nuclear Attack Submarine Built in the 1970’s ‘Sunk’ a 100,000-Ton Nimitz-Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrieroriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Israeli Pilots With 24 Air-to-Air Kills Between Them Evaluated the F-14 Tomcat and the F-15 Eagle in 1974 and Reported That the Tomcat Could Barely Outperform an A-4 Skyhawk in a Dogfight. Israel Bought the Eagle. Iran Bought the Tomcat.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
‘This Can’t Be Fixed’: Why the Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class Aircraft Carriers Can Only Fly F-35B Stealth Fightersoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
82 Years Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line Is Still the Greatest Military Quote in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
The M551 Sheridan ‘Flying’ Light Tank Has A Message for the M10 Booker and the US Armyoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Colt Anaconda Weighs Between 47 and 59 Ounces Depending on the Barrel. That Weight Is Not Styling. It Is the Reason You Can Shoot a Full Cylinder of .44 Magnum and Still Be on Target for the 6th Round.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
2 US Army Delta Force Snipers Circling a Crashed Black Hawk Over Mogadishu on October 3, 1993, Asked to Be Put on the Ground to Defend the Wounded Crew, Were Refused Twice, Were Granted the Request on the Third Attempt, and Were Both Killed Holding a Position They Already Knew They Could Not Holdoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: Factory .44 Magnum Makes About 800 Foot-Pounds Out of a Ruger Super Blackhawk. Ruger Got There by Adding 8 Ounces of Steel to a Gun That Was Already Punishing, and Selling It for Less Than the Smith & Wesson.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Iran Ordered 80 Made in the USA F-14 Tomcat Fighters Under the Shah and Took Delivery of 79 Before the 1979 Revolution. By 1986 Only 25 Were Still Operational. Israeli Strikes on Isfahan in March Destroyed at Least 2 More, and Nobody Outside Iran Knows Whether Any Are Still Flying.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
A US Army Sergeant First Class Soaked in Fuel from a Burning Bradley Went Back into the Fire Again and Again to Pull Out His Soldiers While He Was Himself on Fire, Died of His Burns, and Waited 16 Years for the Silver Star He Was Given to Be Upgraded to the Medal of Honororiginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: A 240-Grain .454 Casull Load Leaves the Taurus Raging Bull at About 1,900 Feet per Second With 1,923 Foot-Pounds Behind It. That Is .30-30 Rifle Energy, Out of a 5-Shot Revolver.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
The US Army Has Built 6,700 Bradleys, Is Buying 700 More at $4,350,000 Each Through 2029, and Said in 2019 the Design Had Hit Its Limits.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
The Littoral Combat Ship Should Serve as a Warning to the US Navyoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
Contractors Glued Bolt Heads On Inside Britain’s Nuclear Submarine HMS Vanguard. Seven of 3,000 Bolts, and the Logbook Never Mentioned Glue.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
‘They’re Playing With Fire’: A Russian Drone Struck 1.2 Miles From NATO’s Border, Beside a Train Carrying Former U.S. Intelligence Officials.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Venus Takes 243 Earth Days to Turn Once on Its Axis and 224.7 Earth Days to Circle the Sun. Its Equator Creeps Along at About 4 Miles per Hour — Slower Than a Person Walks — While the Planet Itself Races Through Space at 78,000 Miles per Hour.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
The Eurofighter Typhoon and the Dassault Rafale Fighters Were Never Supposed to Have Been Createdoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Ruger Super Redhawk Weighs 53 Ounces Empty and Close to 60 With an Optic Mounted. It Has Been Chambered in 6 Cartridges From .22 Hornet to .454 Casull, and Ruger Built It in 1987 Specifically So It Would Not Beat Itself Apart.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Twelve Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbirds Were Lost in Accidents and None to Enemy Fire. ‘Rapid Rabbit’ Nearly Became the Exception Over Hanoi. A Typhoon Did.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Taurus 66 Combat Revolver Holds 7 Rounds of .357 Magnum in a 36.5-Ounce Revolver With a 3-Inch Barrel. A 140-Grain Load Made 448 Foot-Pounds and 14.5 Inches of Gel Penetrationoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
The Royal Navy Chose Aircraft Carrier Catapults for the Queen Elizabeth-Class in October 2010 and Unchose Them in May 2012. The £100,000,000 Argument Binds HMS Prince of Wales to 2069.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
‘As Quiet As a Baby Dolphin’: The Royal Navy’s Astute-Class Submarine Is One of the Best on Earth and Actually Compares to a US Navy Nuclear Virginia-Class Suboriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
7 Years Ago, US Marine Corps General James Mattis and His Line on Leadership Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: Smith & Wesson Put .44 Magnum Into a 5-Shot Revolver Weighing 34.3 Ounces With a 2.75-Inch Barrel. It Still Delivers About 200 More Foot-Pounds Than a Compact 10mm or a Snub .357.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
Without Its Radar-Absorbent Coating, the F-35 Shows Up on Radar at About 0.06 Square Meters. With It, 0.0001. The Coating Does the Rest.original ↗
16 Sept 2026
75 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur’s Line on ‘Old Soldiers’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: A 300-Grain .50 Action Express Round Leaves a Desert Eagle at About 1,542 Feet Per Second With Roughly 1,500 Foot-Pounds Behind It. That Is Closer to a Lever-Action Rifle Than to Any Other Handgun.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Canada’s First F-35s Reach Luke Air Force Base This Year and Canadian Soil in 2028. Saab’s JAS 39 Gripen Could Join Themoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
The US Navy Spent $1,840,000,000 Modernizing Four Ticonderoga-class Cruisers, Hue City, Anzio, Cowpens, and Vicksburg. None of Them Ever Deployed Again.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Chinese Researchers Claim They Found the US Air Force B-21 Raider’s Weak Spots by Simulating a Bomber They’ve Never Seen. The Model Rests on Estimates.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Saab Says 40 JAS 39 Gripen Fighters Would Justify Building Whole Jets in Canada, the First Outside Sweden. On the F-35, Its CEO Says ‘It’s Both.’original ↗
15 Sept 2026
China’s J-20 Was Not Built to Fight the US Air Force F-22 Raptor. Its Job Is to Kill the Tankers and Radar Planes Behind It and to Hit U.S. Bases in the Pacific.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
The US Navy’s Ohio-Class Nuclear Submarines Were Loaded with 154 Tomahawk Missiles and Can’t Be Replaced But Will Soon Be Retiredoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Why Putin Still Believes He Is Winning in Ukraine: The Reporting Problem Inside Russia’s Command Structureoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Japan’s Quantum Submarine Sensor Sees Several Thousand Meters at Best. Tokyo Will Put It on Cheap Drones and Crowd the Straits China Must Use.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II Flew Well Against Iran for One Reason: The Pentagon Finally Gave It the Parts. The Bill to Keep Doing That Is $13,700,000,000.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Poland Has Taken Delivery of 8 of Its F-35A Husarz Fighters and Spent Close to $700,000,000 Rebuilding 1 Airbase to Receive Them. The 6th US Loan Guarantee, Signed on 9 September, Brings American Military Financing to Warsaw to Nearly $20,000,000,000 — All of It Repayable With Interest.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Ukraine’s Two Deficits: A $27 Billion Defense Shortfall and 140 Russian Ballistic Missiles a Monthoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Swiss Voters Approved CHF 6,000,000,000 to Buy 36 Lockheed Martin F-35A Fighters. Switzerland Is Now Paying CHF 394,000,000 More and Will Receive 30, Because the “Fixed Price” Officials Promised Parliament Was Never Written Into Any Contract.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Decades Later, Admiral Chester Nimitz Best US Navy Line to ‘Carry the War to the Enemy’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
The US Air Force Has 76 B-52H Stratofortresses, About 45 B-1B Lancers and 19 Operational B-2 Spirits. The Newest B-52 Was Delivered in 1962, and 10 of the 13 Programs in Its $21,000,000,000 Modernization Are Running Late or Over Budget.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
The Japanese Battleship Yamato Carried 9 18.1-Inch Guns and the US Navy Montana-Class Would Have Carried 12 16-Inch Guns. The Smaller Gun Throws More Steel — 32,400 Pounds per Salvo Against 28,971, and 64,800 Pounds a Minute Against 43,500.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
The Trump-Class Battleship Would Carry 128 Mk 41 Cells. Russia’s Admiral Nakhimov Nuclear Battlecruiser Will Carry 176. 1 of Those 2 Ships Is Real, and It Has Been in the Yard for 25 Years.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
78 Years Ago, Winston Churchill’s Line on Delaying a War Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Iowa vs. Yamato: America’s and Japan’s Best Battleships, Head to Headoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Donald Trump Needs to Bring Concessions if He Wants a Deal with North Koreaoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Smith & Wesson Model 460 Fires a 200-Grain Bullet at 2,330 Feet Per Second for More Than 2,400 Foot-Pounds of Muzzle Energy. With a Scope on It You Can Hunt Deer at 200 Yards With a Handgun.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Putin Faces An Uncertain Future When the Ukraine War Endsoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2026
Canada Scored the Lockheed Martin F-35A at 57.1 Out of 60 Points for Military Capability in Its 2021 Fighter Competition. The Saab Gripen E Scored 19.8. On Mission Performance It Was 97 Percent Against 22 Percent, and Ottawa Is Still Considering Buying Both.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
South Korea Has Put $74,400,000 Into an 8,000-Ton Nuclear Submarine Due in the Mid-2030s. It Has Never Operated a Naval Reactor.original ↗
15 Sept 2026
Boeing Built One 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 ↗
15 Sept 2026
The Former Canadian CF-18 Pilot Who Said in 2011 That the F-35 Was “Not the Right Plane for Canada” Is Now the Minister Deciding How Many Canada Buys. Stephen Fuhr Has Committed to 16 of the 88 Jets Ottawa Announced.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
The US Army Has a $17,040,000,000 Abrams Upgrade Program. Now It Says the 73-Ton Tank Can’t Take Another Upgrade and Is Building a New One.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
All 5 of the Royal Navy’s In-Service Astute-Class Nuclear Attack Submarines Were Tied Up Alongside at the Same Time in Late June 2026, 1 of Them Stripped of Parts to Keep the Other 4 Running. The Class Will Take 28 Years to Deliver 7 Boats.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
The Pentagon Is Paying $24,290,000,000 for 296 F-35 Fighters. The Engines Were Not Included. With Them, One F-35A Now Costs $92,000,000.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Ukraine’s F-16s Have Shot Down 2,500 Russian Drones in Two Years. Now Pilots Are Using the 20mm Cannon Because Missiles Are Running Low.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Investigators Are Studying Why the US Navy’s Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Was Hit With a Massive Fire and If It Could Have Been Preventedoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
21 Years Ago, Apple Founder Steve Jobs Advice on Time and ‘Living Someone Else’s Life’ Is the Truth Serum That Still Shapes Our Worldoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
A US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Came Apart Around Pilot Bill Weaver at Mach 3.2 and 78,000 Feet. He Never Pulled the Handle — the Aircraft Threw Him Out. He Survived and Was Flying Again 2 Weeks Later.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
86 Years Ago, Winston Churchill’s Line on Victory in War Is Still the One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Ukraine’s Fire Point Is Building 2 Ballistic Missiles of Its Own. The FP-7 Reaches 200 Kilometres With a 150-Kilogram Warhead. The Longer-Ranged FP-9 Could Strike 600 to 800 Kilometres Into Russia Within Minutes.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
The Youngest B-52 Was Built in 1962 and the US Air Force Plans to Fly It Until 2050 — 88 Years in Service. In Early March 2026, B-52s Struck Ballistic Missile Sites Inside Iran for the First Time.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
A Russian Attack Drone Struck a Locomotive at Yahodyn on 14 September, 1.2 Miles From the Polish Border, Minutes After a Train Carrying Boris Johnson, Carl Bildt and EU Security Advisers Had Passed Through. Passengers on the Train That Was Hit Got About 15 Minutes of Warning.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Sorry, F-35: South Korea Flew 6 KF-21 Boramae Prototypes on Nearly 1,600 Sorties Over 42 Months and Declared Development Complete in July 2026.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Russia Landed Venera 12 on Venus on December 21, 1978 and Venera 11 on December 25. Both Survived 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and Roughly 90 Atmospheres of Pressure. Neither Returned a Single Photograph, Because the Lens Caps Failed to Eject on Both.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Russia Commissioned the Nuclear Battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov in 1986 and Sent Her to the Yard at Severodvinsk in 1999. She Came Out in 2025. She Has Now Spent Roughly Twice as Long Being Repaired as She Ever Spent in Service, at a Cost of About $5,000,000,000.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Royal Navy Nuclear Missile Submarine HMS Vanguard Spent About 89 Months in Refit at Devonport. It Had Taken 83 Months to Build Her. Her 3 Sisters Averaged 42 Months for the Same Overhaul, and She Came Home in March From a 204-Day Patrol — the Longest in Royal Navy History.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Smith & Wesson Model 500 Puts Out About 2,580 Foot-Pounds at the Muzzle and Kicks Roughly 3 Times Harder Than a .44 Magnum. It Is Not a Range Gun.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
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