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56,966 blogs · [ { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0cd89789", "title": "I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Taurus Judge Fires .410 Shotgun Shells and .45 Colt Out of the Same 5-Round Cylinder, and It Is Legal Where a Sawed-Off Shotgun Is Not.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am-a-retired-us-army-special-forces-nco-the-taurus-judge-fires-410-shotgun-shells-and-45-colt-out-of-the-same-5-round-cylinder-and-it-is-legal-where-a-sawed-off-shotgun-is-not/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T16:10:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0d4ca633", "title": "Albert Einstein did not write the letter that started the Manhattan Project. Leo Szilard did. Einstein signed it, because his name was the only one Roosevelt would read.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/albert-einstein-did-not-write-the-letter-that-started-the-manhattan-project-leo-szilard-did-einstein-signed-it-because-his-name-was-the-only-one-roosevelt-would-read/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T15:38:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0de2d3e2", "title": "Canada Agreed to Buy 88 F-35As and Has Formally Committed to 16. The Official Now Running Canadian Defence Procurement Is a Former CF-18 Pilot Who Told the CBC in 2011 That the F-35 Was “Not the Right Plane for Canada.”", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/canada-agreed-to-buy-88-f-35as-and-has-formally-committed-to-16-the-official-now-running-canadian-defence-procurement-is-a-former-cf-18-pilot-who-told-the-cbc-in-2011-that-the-f-35-was-not-the-righ/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T15:27:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0e392269", "title": "‘Death Is Imminent!’: An SR-71 Blackbird Lost Its Entire Nose Section in a Collision With Its Own Tanker at Altitude. Both Crewmen Ejected and Both Survived.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/death-is-imminent-an-sr-71-blackbird-lost-its-entire-nose-section-in-a-collision-with-its-own-tanker-at-altitude-both-crewmen-ejected-and-both-survived/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T15:02:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0ea3d872", "title": "I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Glock Gen 6 Fixed the Trigger Guard, the Beavertail and the Optics Mount. It Did Not Fix the Grip Angle.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/i-am-a-retired-us-army-special-forces-nco-the-glock-gen-6-fixed-the-trigger-guard-the-beavertail-and-the-optics-mount-it-did-not-fix-the-grip-angle/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T14:20:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0f8a5712", "title": "59 Years Ago, General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Advice to ‘Learn As Much As You Can from Those Who Know More Than You’ Is One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/59-years-ago-general-dwight-d-eisenhowers-advice-to-learn-as-much-as-you-can-from-those-who-know-more-than-you-is-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T14:05:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0f948a06", "title": "‘Usually Only in the Single Digits’: Just a Tiny Amount of Donated American-Made F-16 Fighters Can Fly for Ukraine Against Russia Because of Spare Parts Problems", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/usually-only-in-the-single-digits-just-a-tiny-amount-of-donated-american-made-f-16-fighters-can-fly-for-ukraine-against-russia-because-of-spare-parts-problems/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T13:44:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0f9d10b5", "title": "Decades Later, US Army General George Patton’s Line That ‘You Can’t Run an Army Without Profanity’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/decades-later-us-army-general-george-pattons-line-that-you-cant-run-an-army-without-profanity-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T11:51:09+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc0fa185c1", "title": "The SR-71 Blackbird Was Originally Going to Be Named Something Different and the Story Seems to Confuse Everyone", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-sr-71-blackbird-was-originally-going-to-be-named-something-different-and-the-story-seems-to-confuse-everyone/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T11:38:57+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc107d03f0", "title": "The US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Has a Dirty Little Secret: It Could Hit Mach 3.5 Speeds and 85,000 Feet Thanks to Titanium Alloy and Special Fuel and Engines", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-air-force-sr-71-blackbird-has-a-dirty-little-secret-it-could-hit-mach-3-5-speeds-and-85000-feet-thanks-to-titanium-alloy-and-special-fuel-and-engines/", "published_at": "2026-09-14T11:20:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc110ef1cf", "title": "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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/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/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T23:46:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc11bcee09", "title": "“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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/it-cant-fire-a-gun-and-doesnt-carry-a-bomb-that-was-the-air-force-chief-of-staff-on-the-sr-71-blackbird-an-aircraft-with-17300-sorties-and-zero-losses-to-enemy-fire/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T23:31:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc11edb254", "title": "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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-pentagon-cut-the-b-2-bomber-program-from-75400000000-to-61100000000-and-made-every-aircraft-more-expensive-cutting-the-order-from-132-to-21-nearly-quadrupled-the-cost-per-bomber/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T23:07:39+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc125ea0ee", "title": "$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’", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/850000000-australian-submarine-sank-a-5500000000-us-navy-nuclear-nimitz-class-aircraft-carrier-and-2-nuclear-attack-submarines-by-evading-a-fleet-of-warships-and-pene/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T22:48:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc128e6370", "title": "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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/at-75000-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/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T22:23:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc130c48b3", "title": "Ukraine Has Received Its First RCH 155 Wheeled Howitzers Nearly 4 Years After Ordering Them. The Vehicle Fires While Driving, Carries 2 Crew Instead of the PzH 2000’s 5, and Ukraine Is the Only Country on Earth Operating It — Ahead of Germany, Britain, Qatar and Switzerland.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/ukraine-has-received-its-first-rch-155-wheeled-howitzers-nearly-4-years-after-ordering-them-the-vehicle-fires-while-driving-carries-2-crew-instead-of-the-pzh-2000s-5-and-ukraine-is-the-only-count/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T22:06:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc13b71e23", "title": "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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/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-sw-cartridge-it-fires/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T15:32:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc146ad8b8", "title": "9/11 Bought China’s Military 2 Decades to Become a Powerhouse", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/9-11-bought-chinas-military-2-decades-to-become-a-powerhouse/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T15:19:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc14a47f4d", "title": "A US Air Force Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird Flew More Than 15,000 Miles in 10 Hours and 30 Minutes With 5 Aerial Refueling. The Limit Was Not Fuel, Not the Engines, and Not the Crew. It Was 212 Liters of Liquid Nitrogen.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/on-april-26-1971-an-sr-71-blackbird-flew-more-than-15000-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-li/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T14:57:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e760-c8e3-7211-ac26-37fc15511900", "title": "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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/seaman-first-class-calvin-graham-was-12-years-old-aboard-the-45233-ton-battleship-uss-south-dakota-at-the-second-naval-battle-of-guadalcanal-on-14-15-november-1942-japanese-shellfire-killed-40-of-he/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T14:26:21+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fce8bea20", "title": "The 45,233-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Indiana Carried 9 16-Inch Guns and 143 Anti-Aircraft Barrels, and Earned 9 Battle Stars From Marcus Island to Tokyo Bay. 2 of Her 3 Sister Ships Are Floating Museums Today. Indiana Was Stricken on 1 June 1962 and Broken Up the Following Year.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-45233-ton-us-navy-battleship-uss-indiana-carried-9-16-inch-guns-and-143-anti-aircraft-barrels-and-earned-9-battle-stars-from-marcus-island-to-tokyo-bay-2-of-her-3-sister-ships-are-floating-muse/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T14:08:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fcf10d246", "title": "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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/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/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T12:12:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fcfa5e427", "title": "Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Came Back From Every Mission 3 to 4 Inches Longer Than It Took Off. At Mach 3.2 the Titanium Skin Ran Around 620 Degrees Fahrenheit, So Lockheed Built the Panels Loose on Purpose and the Fuel Tanks Leaked on the Ramp Until Heat Swelled the Joints Shut.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-lockheed-sr-71-blackbird-came-back-from-every-mission-3-to-4-inches-longer-than-it-took-off-at-mach-3-2-the-titanium-skin-ran-around-620-degrees-fahrenheit-so-lockheed-built-the-panels-loose-on/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T12:01:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd015b22b", "title": "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.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/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-pr/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T11:41:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd0e21f33", "title": "America Is Transforming Canada Into An Enemy. That Is a Big Mistake", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/america-is-transforming-canada-into-an-enemy-that-is-a-big-mistake/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T11:25:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd188cd48", "title": "F-111B Was Supposed to Be a US Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-f-111b-was-supposed-to-be-a-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-fighter-it-exceeded-80000-pounds-needed-a-wingspan-7-feet-wider-than-the-air-force-version-just-to-slow-down-enough-to-land-and-the-navy-wa/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T00:39:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd27b1f1c", "title": "The US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Holds Speeds Above Mach 1.5 Without Ever Lighting an Afterburner. Its 2 Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Engines Make About 35,000 Pounds of Thrust Each, and the Fleet Just Passed 1,000,000 Flight Hours on an Engine Last Built in 2013.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-air-force-f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-holds-speeds-above-mach-1-5-without-ever-lighting-an-afterburner-its-2-pratt-whitney-f119-pw-100-engines-make-about-35000-pounds-of-thrust-each-and-th/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T00:21:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd2aad5e7", "title": "The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt-Class Destroyers and Built 3. Each One Cost About $10,600,000,000 With Development Included — More Than 7 Times the Original Estimate — and the 2 155mm Guns on Every Ship Were Never Fired Because Each Shell Reached $800,000.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-navy-planned-32-zumwalt-class-destroyers-and-built-3-each-one-cost-about-10600000000-with-development-included-more-than-7-times-the-original-estimate-and-the-2-155mm-g/", "published_at": "2026-09-13T00:05:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd36e90cf", "title": "Over 4,000 Missiles Failed to Hit a Single US Air Force Mach 3.2 SR-71 Blackbird. Speed Was the Only Way to Survive as It Had No Weapons to Fire Back", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/over-4000-missiles-failed-to-hit-a-single-us-air-force-mach-3-2-sr-71-blackbird-speed-was-the-only-way-to-survive-as-it-had-no-weapons-to-fire-back/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T23:53:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd386b1c6", "title": "The US Navy’s New $23,400,000,000 Nuclear Trump-Class Battleship Keeps Getting Called Obsolete Thanks to Drones. Chinese Military Experts Just Tested That Theory Out", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-navys-new-23400000000-nuclear-trump-class-battleship-keeps-getting-called-obsolete-thanks-to-drones-chinese-military-experts-just-tested-that-theory-out/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T15:37:53+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd479dfe3", "title": "Move Over, Patton: 276 Years Ago, Frederick the Great’s Famous Line on Defense Is Still of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/move-over-patton-276-years-ago-frederick-the-greats-famous-line-on-defense-is-still-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T15:10:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd484a312", "title": "45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/45000-ton-us-navy-battleship-uss-alabama-was-towed-through-the-panama-canal-with-11-inches-of-clearance-on-each-side-she-carried-9-16-inch-guns-firing-2700-pound-shells-earned-9-battle-stars-acros/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T14:53:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd4fb3156", "title": "The Mach 3 US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Ran on a Fuel So Stable You Could Put Out a Match in It. Then They Had to Invent a Way to Light It.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-mach-3-us-air-force-sr-71-blackbird-ran-on-a-fuel-so-stable-you-could-put-out-a-match-in-it-then-they-had-to-invent-a-way-to-light-it/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T14:35:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd50d438f", "title": "Russia Built a Titanium Hulled ‘Golden Fish’ Nuclear Submarine That Could Hit 44 Knots That Had 2 Reactors. The Goal Was to Hunt US Navy Aircraft Carriers", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/russia-built-a-titanium-hulled-golden-fish-nuclear-submarine-that-could-hit-44-knots-that-had-2-reactors-the-goal-was-to-hunt-us-navy-aircraft-carriers/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T13:25:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd52bb6ed", "title": "Japan’s Mach 2.5 F-15J Fighter Won’t Ever Fly for the Air Force As It Was Custom Built for Tokyo", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/japans-mach-2-5-f-15j-fighter-wont-ever-fly-for-the-us-air-force-as-it-was-custom-built-for-tokyo/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T12:25:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd624f38f", "title": "To Fly the US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3 and 85,000 Feet You Needed an Astronaut’s Body, Iron Nerves, and the Stomach to Outrun Soviet Missiles", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/to-fly-the-us-air-force-sr-71-blackbird-at-mach-3-and-85000-feet-you-needed-an-astronauts-body-iron-nerves-and-the-stomach-to-outrun-soviet-missiles/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T12:04:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd65cce7c", "title": "China Bolted an Electromagnetic Railgun to the Bow of a Type 072III Landing Ship Back in December 2017 and Has Kept It at Sea Ever Since. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 Over 15 Years, Never Got Its Gun to Sea at All, and Cancelled the Program in July 2021.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/china-bolted-an-electromagnetic-railgun-to-the-bow-of-a-type-072iii-landing-ship-in-december-2017-and-has-kept-it-at-sea-ever-since-the-us-navy-spent-about-500000000-over-15-years-never-got-its-g/", "published_at": "2026-09-12T11:44:29+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e77b-e9e5-703c-bc4b-7e1fd7431390", "title": "France and Germany Launched FCAS in 2017 to Field a €100,000,000,000 Sixth-Generation Fighter Like the F-47 NGAD by 2040. 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The F-5 It Was Built to Replace Has Been Flying for More Than 60 Years.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/northrop-spent-about-1200000000-of-its-own-money-on-the-f-20-tigershark-and-sold-0-aircraft-the-f-5-it-was-built-to-replace-has-been-flying-for-more-than-60-years/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T12:06:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fd7f30297", "title": "82 Years Ago, Army General George Patton’s Advice on How to Become a ‘Successful Soldier’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/82-years-ago-us-army-general-george-pattons-advice-on-how-to-become-a-successful-soldier-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T11:56:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fd8be6dc9", "title": "The Soviet Typhoon-Class Submarine Displaced 48,000 Tons, Carried Up to 200 Nuclear Warheads, and Had a Swimming Pool and a Sauna. It Could Stay Under the Arctic Ice for 120 Days.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-soviet-typhoon-class-submarine-displaced-48000-tons-carried-up-to-200-nuclear-warheads-and-had-a-swimming-pool-and-a-sauna-it-could-stay-under-the-arctic-ice-for-120-days/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T11:40:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fd9646304", "title": "73 Years Ago, US Army General Dwight D Eisenhower’s Line on War Being ‘Theft’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/73-years-ago-us-army-general-dwight-d-eisenhowers-line-on-war-being-theft-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-11T11:23:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fd9dca79b", "title": "F-117 Nighthawks Flew 2 Percent of Desert Storm’s Sorties and Hit 40 Percent of the Targets — More Than 1,500 of Them in 43 Nights, Without a Single Loss. 8 Years Later a 1961 Soviet Missile Shot 1 Down.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/f-117-nighthawks-flew-2-percent-of-desert-storms-sorties-and-hit-40-percent-of-the-targets-more-than-1500-of-them-in-43-nights-without-a-single-loss-8-years-later-a-1961-soviet-missile/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T23:43:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fda7fb3bc", "title": "The US Air Force Built Only 21 B-2 Spirits and They Cost About $2,000,000,000 Each. It Wants at Least 100 B-21 Raiders at Roughly $750,000,000 Apiece.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-air-force-built-only-21-b-2-spirits-and-they-cost-about-2000000000-each-it-wants-at-least-100-b-21-raiders-at-roughly-750000000-apiece/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T23:34:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdaa74a99", "title": "How US Navy Nuclear Submarines Stay Underwater for Months Without Surfacing", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/how-us-navy-nuclear-submarines-stay-underwater-for-months-without-surfacing/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T23:18:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdab371c9", "title": "We Learned Nothing from 9/11", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/we-learned-nothing-from-9-11/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T22:07:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdb2c9e61", "title": "General Dynamics Is Delivering All 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Tanks to Poland in About 24 Months. Warsaw Ordered Them for $4,750,000,000 Along With 17 Bridge Layers and 26 Recovery Vehicles.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/general-dynamics-is-delivering-all-250-m1a2-sepv3-abrams-tanks-to-poland-in-about-24-months-warsaw-ordered-them-for-4750000000-along-with-17-bridge-layers-and-26-recovery-vehicles/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T19:58:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdba09579", "title": "Japan’s Electromagnetic Railgun Fired More Than 100 Shots Without Replacing Its Rails. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 on Its Own Railgun and Shut the Program Down in 2021.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/japans-electromagnetic-railgun-has-fired-more-than-100-shots-without-replacing-its-rails-the-us-navy-spent-about-500000000-on-its-own-railgun-and-shut-the-program-down-in-2021/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T19:40:13+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdc18e9a8", "title": "A UK Ministry of Defence Official Says GCAP Fighter Will Carry Twice the Internal Weapons Payload of an F-35 and Control Uncrewed Aircraft Alongside It. Almost Nothing Else About the Aircraft Is Public.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-uk-ministry-of-defence-official-says-gcap-fighter-will-carry-twice-the-internal-weapons-payload-of-an-f-35-and-control-uncrewed-aircraft-alongside-it-almost-nothing-else-about-the-aircraft-is-publi/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T19:11:38+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdc304316", "title": "81 Years Ago, Army General George Patton’s Advice on History Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/81-years-ago-us-army-general-george-pattons-advice-on-history-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T18:39:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdcbc8edd", "title": "Centuries Later, Alexander the Great’s Best Line on ‘Lions and Sheep’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/centuries-later-alexander-the-greats-best-line-on-lions-and-sheep-is-still-the-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T18:25:35+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdcee01b9", "title": "The US Air Force Retired the F-117 Nighthawk in 2008 and Never Stopped Flying It. The Service Now Says the Aircraft Will Stay in the Air Until 2034 — 26 Years After Its Own Retirement.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-air-force-retired-the-f-117-nighthawk-in-2008-and-never-stopped-flying-it-the-service-now-says-the-aircraft-will-stay-in-the-air-until-2034-26-years-after-its-own-retirement/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T18:00:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdd056425", "title": "Congress Spent $100,000,000 Bringing Just 2 SR-71 Blackbirds Back from Retirement in 1995 and Another $30,000,000 in 1997. By 1998 the Program Was Dead Again.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/congress-spent-100000000-bringing-just-2-sr-71-blackbirds-back-from-retirement-in-1995-and-another-30000000-in-1997-by-1998-the-program-was-dead-again/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T17:47:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fddde97e6", "title": "100,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Deployed for 326 Days, a Post-Cold War Record. USS Abraham Lincoln Went 264 Days Without a Port Visit. A Normal Carrier Deployment Runs About 7 Months.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/100000-ton-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-uss-gerald-r-ford-deployed-for-326-days-a-post-cold-war-record-uss-abraham-lincoln-went-264-days-without-a-port-visit-a-normal-carrier-deployment-runs-about-7/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T17:27:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdea07906", "title": "The US Air Force Capped F-22 Raptor Production at 187 Aircraft at About $143,000,000 Each. In November 2009 a French Rafale Costing About 64,000,000 Euros Got Behind 1 and Took the Shot.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-us-air-force-capped-f-22-raptor-production-at-187-aircraft-at-about-143000000-each-in-november-2009-a-french-rafale-costing-about-64000000-euros-got-behind-1-and-took-the-shot/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T17:16:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdf18bfae", "title": "A Laser Shot Costs a Few Dollars. The US Navy Estimates the First Real Shipboard Laser Program Would Cost About $1,000,000,000 Before a Single Destroyer Is Fitted With One.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-laser-shot-costs-a-few-dollars-the-us-navy-estimates-the-first-real-shipboard-laser-program-would-cost-about-1000000000-before-a-single-destroyer-is-fitted-with-one/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T15:18:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fdff0c73a", "title": "64 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur’s Line on Soldiers and Suffering Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/64-years-ago-us-army-general-douglas-macarthurs-line-on-soldiers-and-suffering-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T15:09:34+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe08267b2", "title": "Centuries Later, Julius Caesar’s Best Line on Pain and Patience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/centuries-later-julius-caesars-best-line-on-pain-and-patience-is-still-the-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T14:51:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe0cdc63c", "title": "Northrop Spent More Than $750,000,000 of Its Own Money on the F-20 Tigershark Without a Dollar of Pentagon Funding. It Sold 0 Aircraft and Wrote Off About $1,200,000,000.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/northrop-spent-more-than-750000000-of-its-own-money-on-the-f-20-tigershark-without-a-dollar-of-pentagon-funding-it-sold-0-aircraft-and-wrote-off-about-1200000000/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T14:28:48+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe1b14aee", "title": "The Government Accountability Office Reviewed All 13 Programs in the US Air Force’s $21,000,000,000 B-52 Modernization and Found 10 of Them in Trouble. The Engine Replacement Went From $3,000,000,000 to $15,400,000,000.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-government-accountability-office-reviewed-all-13-programs-in-the-us-air-forces-21000000000-b-52-modernization-and-found-10-of-them-in-trouble-the-engine-replacement-went-from-3000000000/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T14:15:02+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe1e0344e", "title": "A Dutch Diesel Submarine That Cost Less Than 1 of the Destroyers Guarding the Carrier “Sank” the US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and 7 Escort Warships in 1999. Then It Passed 1,500 Yards From the Carrier to Prove It Had Never Been Detected.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-dutch-submarine-hnlms-walrus-cost-about-340000000-and-sank-the-4500000000-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-uss-theodore-roosevelt-and-7-escorts-in-1999-then-it-passed-1500-yards-from-the-carr/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T14:01:05+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe2afe25d", "title": "9/11 at 25: A Failure of Intelligence, Not of the Intelligence Agencies", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/9-11-at-25-a-failure-of-intelligence-not-of-the-intelligence-agencies/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T13:39:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe2ba9712", "title": "The F-14 Tomcat’s Engine Was Designed in 1958 for a Short-Haul Airliner. The US Navy Put It in a Dogfighter Anyway, and It Took Until 1988 to Put a Proper Fighter Engine In.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-f-14-tomcats-engine-was-designed-in-1958-for-a-short-haul-airliner-the-us-navy-put-it-in-a-dogfighter-anyway-and-it-took-until-1988-to-put-a-proper-fighter-engine-in/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T13:19:15+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe36620f2", "title": "NASA Spent About $230,000,000 Over 8 Years and Flew the X-43A 3 Times. Its Scramjet Held Mach 9.68 for About 10 Seconds on 16 November 2004, and the Funding Ended Within Weeks — Before the Team Had Published the Results.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/nasa-spent-about-230000000-over-8-years-and-flew-the-x-43a-3-times-its-scramjet-held-mach-9-68-for-about-10-seconds-on-16-november-2004-and-the-funding-ended-within-weeks-before-the-tea/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T11:35:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe4014762", "title": "Decades Later, US Army General Dwight D Eisenhower’s Line on Sergeants in the Army Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/decades-later-us-army-general-dwight-d-eisenhowers-line-on-sergeants-in-the-army-is-still-one-of-the-greatest-military-quotes-in-armed-forces-history/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T11:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe414cbbb", "title": "A Swedish Gotland-Class Diesel Submarine Worth About $100,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group and “Sank” the $5,500,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-swedish-gotland-class-diesel-submarine-worth-about-100000000-slipped-past-an-entire-us-navy-carrier-group-the-6000000000-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-uss-ronald-reagan-was-sunk/", "published_at": "2026-09-10T11:08:44+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe4daf207", "title": "A 16-Inch Shell From an Iowa-Class Battleship Weighed 2,700 Pounds and Reached 24 Miles. The Tomahawk the Navy Bolted On in the 1980s Weighed 992 Pounds and Reached 1,553 Miles.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/a-16-inch-shell-from-an-iowa-class-battleship-weighed-2700-pounds-and-reached-24-miles-the-tomahawk-the-us-navy-bolted-on-in-the-1980s-weighed-992-pounds-and-reached-1553-miles/", "published_at": "2026-09-09T23:41:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe564a3c2", "title": "‘We Are Not Effectively Allowed to Do Much at All With the Airplane’: A Ukrainian Defense Executive on the F-16, and Why Ukraine’s Industry Would Rather Have Sweden’s JAS 39 Gripen", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/we-are-not-effectively-allowed-to-do-much-at-all-with-the-airplane-a-ukrainian-defense-executive-on-the-f-16-and-why-ukraines-industry-would-rather-have-swedens-jas-39-gripen/", "published_at": "2026-09-09T23:15:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe57ceb92", "title": "The Dassault Rafale Fighter Costs About $16,500 an Hour to Fly and an F-35A Costs About $42,000. The Rafale Is Not Stealthy, and It Is Selling Better Than It Ever Has.", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/the-dassault-rafale-fighter-costs-about-16500-an-hour-to-fly-and-an-f-35a-costs-about-42000-the-rafale-is-not-stealthy-and-it-is-selling-better-than-it-ever-has/", "published_at": "2026-09-09T22:46:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e793-eadf-737c-85da-409fe585c1fc", "title": "Why the Witkoff-Kushner Mission Failed: Washington Still Misreads the Stakes in Ukraine", "url": "https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/09/why-the-witkoff-kushner-mission-failed-washington-still-misreads-the-stakes-in-ukraine/", "published_at": "2026-09-09T22:27:26+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Taurus Judge Fires .410 Shotgun Shells and .45 Colt Out of the Same 5-Round Cylinder, and It Is Legal Where a Sawed-Off Shotgun Is Not.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Albert Einstein did not write the letter that started the Manhattan Project. Leo Szilard did. Einstein signed it, because his name was the only one Roosevelt would read.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
Canada Agreed to Buy 88 F-35As and Has Formally Committed to 16. The Official Now Running Canadian Defence Procurement Is a Former CF-18 Pilot Who Told the CBC in 2011 That the F-35 Was “Not the Right Plane for Canada.”original ↗
14 Sept 2026
‘Death Is Imminent!’: An SR-71 Blackbird Lost Its Entire Nose Section in a Collision With Its Own Tanker at Altitude. Both Crewmen Ejected and Both Survived.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Glock Gen 6 Fixed the Trigger Guard, the Beavertail and the Optics Mount. It Did Not Fix the Grip Angle.original ↗
14 Sept 2026
59 Years Ago, General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Advice to ‘Learn As Much As You Can from Those Who Know More Than You’ Is One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
‘Usually Only in the Single Digits’: Just a Tiny Amount of Donated American-Made F-16 Fighters Can Fly for Ukraine Against Russia Because of Spare Parts Problemsoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Decades Later, US Army General George Patton’s Line That ‘You Can’t Run an Army Without Profanity’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
The SR-71 Blackbird Was Originally Going to Be Named Something Different and the Story Seems to Confuse Everyoneoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
The US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Has a Dirty Little Secret: It Could Hit Mach 3.5 Speeds and 85,000 Feet Thanks to Titanium Alloy and Special Fuel and Enginesoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
“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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
$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’original ↗
13 Sept 2026
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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
Ukraine Has Received Its First RCH 155 Wheeled Howitzers Nearly 4 Years After Ordering Them. The Vehicle Fires While Driving, Carries 2 Crew Instead of the PzH 2000’s 5, and Ukraine Is the Only Country on Earth Operating It — Ahead of Germany, Britain, Qatar and Switzerland.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
9/11 Bought China’s Military 2 Decades to Become a Powerhouseoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
A US Air Force Mach 3 SR-71 Blackbird Flew More Than 15,000 Miles in 10 Hours and 30 Minutes With 5 Aerial Refueling. The Limit Was Not Fuel, Not the Engines, and Not the Crew. It Was 212 Liters of Liquid Nitrogen.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
The 45,233-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Indiana Carried 9 16-Inch Guns and 143 Anti-Aircraft Barrels, and Earned 9 Battle Stars From Marcus Island to Tokyo Bay. 2 of Her 3 Sister Ships Are Floating Museums Today. Indiana Was Stricken on 1 June 1962 and Broken Up the Following Year.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Came Back From Every Mission 3 to 4 Inches Longer Than It Took Off. At Mach 3.2 the Titanium Skin Ran Around 620 Degrees Fahrenheit, So Lockheed Built the Panels Loose on Purpose and the Fuel Tanks Leaked on the Ramp Until Heat Swelled the Joints Shut.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
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.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
America Is Transforming Canada Into An Enemy. That Is a Big Mistakeoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2026
F-111B Was Supposed to Be a US Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
The US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Holds Speeds Above Mach 1.5 Without Ever Lighting an Afterburner. Its 2 Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Engines Make About 35,000 Pounds of Thrust Each, and the Fleet Just Passed 1,000,000 Flight Hours on an Engine Last Built in 2013.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt-Class Destroyers and Built 3. Each One Cost About $10,600,000,000 With Development Included — More Than 7 Times the Original Estimate — and the 2 155mm Guns on Every Ship Were Never Fired Because Each Shell Reached $800,000.original ↗
13 Sept 2026
Over 4,000 Missiles Failed to Hit a Single US Air Force Mach 3.2 SR-71 Blackbird. Speed Was the Only Way to Survive as It Had No Weapons to Fire Backoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
The US Navy’s New $23,400,000,000 Nuclear Trump-Class Battleship Keeps Getting Called Obsolete Thanks to Drones. Chinese Military Experts Just Tested That Theory Outoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Move Over, Patton: 276 Years Ago, Frederick the Great’s Famous Line on Defense Is Still of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The Mach 3 US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Ran on a Fuel So Stable You Could Put Out a Match in It. Then They Had to Invent a Way to Light It.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Russia Built a Titanium Hulled ‘Golden Fish’ Nuclear Submarine That Could Hit 44 Knots That Had 2 Reactors. The Goal Was to Hunt US Navy Aircraft Carriersoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
Japan’s Mach 2.5 F-15J Fighter Won’t Ever Fly for the Air Force As It Was Custom Built for Tokyooriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
To Fly the US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3 and 85,000 Feet You Needed an Astronaut’s Body, Iron Nerves, and the Stomach to Outrun Soviet Missilesoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2026
China Bolted an Electromagnetic Railgun to the Bow of a Type 072III Landing Ship Back in December 2017 and Has Kept It at Sea Ever Since. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 Over 15 Years, Never Got Its Gun to Sea at All, and Cancelled the Program in July 2021.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
France and Germany Launched FCAS in 2017 to Field a €100,000,000,000 Sixth-Generation Fighter Like the F-47 NGAD by 2040. They Killed the Aircraft in June 2026 Because Dassault and Airbus Could Never Agree on Who Was in Charge.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
Sweden’s Saab JAS-39 Gripen E Costs About $4,700 to $9,900 per Flight Hour Against $38,000 to $42,000 for an F-35A and Up to $68,000 for an F-22 Raptor. It Has No Stealth Airframe, and a Handful of Conscripts With 1 Technician Can Rearm It on a Public Road in Under 20 Minutes.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The Soviet Union Soft-Landed 8 Venera Spacecraft on the Surface of Venus Between 1970 and 1982, in 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and 92 Times Earth’s Atmospheric Pressure. The United States Has Never Landed on Venus Once.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The Eurofighter Typhoon First Flew in 1994 and Can Never Be Made Into the F-22 or F-35. In January 2026 the UK Signed a £453,500,000 Contract for 40 ECRS Mk2 Radars — About £11,300,000 Each — That Track Targets and Jam Enemy Sensors at the Same Time Across a 200-Degree Field of Regard.original ↗
12 Sept 2026
The AH-64 Apache Helicopter Entered U.S. Army Service in the Mid-1980s, Purpose-Built to Destroy Soviet Tanks Pushing Through Central Europe. The Army Now Plans to Fly It Into the 2060s — Close to 80 Years of Service, About 70 of Them After the Soviet Union Stopped Existing.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Russia’s PAK-DA Strategic Bomber: Massive 35-Ton Payload, a 12,000 km Range, and Stealth Like the US Air Force B-2 Spirit But It Looks Frozen In Timeoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
On March 5, 1982, the Soviet Venera 14 Lander Survived 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and 92 Times Earth’s Atmospheric Pressure to Reach the Surface of Venus. Its Soil Instrument Deployed Exactly as Designed and Measured the Camera Lens Cap the Spacecraft Had Just Ejected.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
NASA’s X-43D Was Designed to Hold Mach 15 — About 11,000 Miles per Hour, 3 Miles Every Second — for 30 Seconds of Powered Flight. Development Was to Begin in Fiscal Year 2005, Run 4 Years, and End in 3 Flights a Year Apart. Not One Vehicle Was Ever Built.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
America Did Not Have Enough High-Grade Titanium to Build the SR-71 Blackbird, So the CIA Bought It From the Soviet Union Through Shell Companies in Neutral Countries. The Airframe Was 85 to 90 Percent Titanium, and Much of the Ore Came Out of Soviet Ukraine.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
100,000-Ton US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Could Be Out Of Action for a Long Timeoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
The US Army Says the New M1E3 Abrams Will Be About 25 Percent Lighter Than Today’s Tank and Burn About 50 Percent Less Fuel. It Has an Unmanned Turret, an Autoloader, and a Crew of 3 Instead of 4 — the First American Main Battle Tank Since 1980 Without a Human Loader.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
81 Years Ago, US Army General George Patton’s Line on ‘Attack and Attack and Attack’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
GCAP Could Get a 4th Partner. Airbus Says It Is Exploring German Participation in the British-Italian-Japanese Fighter Program, Which Aims to Field an Aircraft Around 2035, After France and Germany Killed the FCAS Fighter on June 9, 2026.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
China’s First Aircraft Carrier Was Bought from Ukraine By a Travel Agency for $20,000,000 in 1998 Under a Plan to Make It a Floating Casino in Macau. It Was Commissioned Into the People’s Liberation Army Navy as the Liaoning.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
The US Navy Bolted 32 Tomahawk Missiles Onto 58,000-Ton Iowa-Class Battleships. The Upgrade Took Their Reach From 24 Miles to 1,553.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Russia’s Mach 2 Tupolev Tu-160 Bomber Is the Heaviest Combat Aircraft Ever Built and Carries Up to 12 Cruise Missiles on 2 Internal Rotary Launchers. Russia Has Built About 4 New Ones in 11 Years.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Sorry, F-35: Saab Is Offering Canada 6,000 Jobs to Buy the JAS 39 Gripen. The Number Is Now as High as 10,000, and Ottawa Still Has Not Decided.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
65 Years Ago, Former US Army General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Warning About the Military Is Still One of the Greatest Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Britain Is Spending Close to £2,000,000,000 to Field 148 Challenger 3 Tanks by 2030. An Investigation Found the Program May Slip 2 Years Because the Turret Power Traverse Gearbox — a Part Carried Over From the Challenger 2 — Is Not Strong Enough to Turn the Heavier New Turret.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
In 1987 Japan Agreed to Build a Licensed Version of the American F-16 Fighting Falcon Instead of Its Own Fighter. More Than 95 Percent of the Engineering Drawings Were Changed, and the Finished Mitsubishi F-2 Cost About $127,000,000 Each Against $30,000,000 for an F-16.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Canada Finalized an Agreement to Buy 88 Lockheed Martin F-35A Fighter Jets Back in January 2023. Almost 18 Months Into a Review Ordered by Prime Minister Mark Carney, Ottawa Is Committed to Only 16 of Them — and the First Ones Still Arrive This Year.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Russia’s Su-57 Felon Has Exactly 1 Confirmed Export Customer: Algeria, Which Has Taken Delivery of 2 Aircraft. Estimates Put the Fighter’s Frontal Radar Cross-Section Between 0.1 and 1.0 Square Meters Against Roughly 0.0015 for the F-35A.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Canada Has Named Germany’s TKMS Preferred Supplier for Up to 12 Type 212CD Submarines, With the First 4 Due in 2034. Only 1 of Its 4 Existing Victoria-Class Boats Is Seaworthy, and Ottawa Has Never Published a Number for How Many Submariners It Will Need.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
A US Air Force B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Fired a Stealth Anti-Ship Missile at the USS Juneau, an Amphibious Ship Commissioned in 1969 and Left in Mothballs for 18 Years. It Still Took 2 Harpoons, a Japanese Torpedo, a Hellfire, and 2 More Missiles to Put Her Under.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird’s Pratt & Whitney J58 Engines Ran at Full Afterburner for Hours at a Time With Exhaust Temperatures Near 3,400 Degrees. At Mach 3.2 Cruise, Roughly 80 Percent of the Thrust Came From the Inlet, Not the Engine.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
93 Years Ago, US Army General George Patton’s Advice On How Wars Are Really Won Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
The 9/11 Attacks Are Why the F-22 Raptor Was Cancelled and the Littoral Combat Ship War Born. The US Military Learned a Painful Lessonoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
25 Years Ago, George W. Bush’s Line on 9/11 Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
Britain’s £1,000,000,000 Type 45 Destroyers Lose All Electrical Power When the Sea Is Warmer Than About 28 Degrees Celsius. The Persian Gulf Is Warmer Than That.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
The F-35 Carries 5,700 Pounds of Weapons Inside and Stays Nearly Invisible. Go ‘Beast Mode’ and Hang 22,000 Pounds on the Outside and Enemy Radar Will Find It — Which Is Exactly What Pilots Are Trained to Do.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
The US Air Force F-22 Raptor Has a Combat Range of About 590 Nautical Miles. China’s J-20 Is Estimated at Around 1,100. New Stealth Fuel Tanks Take the Raptor to 850.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
Northrop Spent About $1,200,000,000 of Its Own Money on the F-20 Tigershark and Sold 0 Aircraft. The F-5 It Was Built to Replace Has Been Flying for More Than 60 Years.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
82 Years Ago, Army General George Patton’s Advice on How to Become a ‘Successful Soldier’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
The Soviet Typhoon-Class Submarine Displaced 48,000 Tons, Carried Up to 200 Nuclear Warheads, and Had a Swimming Pool and a Sauna. It Could Stay Under the Arctic Ice for 120 Days.original ↗
11 Sept 2026
73 Years Ago, US Army General Dwight D Eisenhower’s Line on War Being ‘Theft’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2026
F-117 Nighthawks Flew 2 Percent of Desert Storm’s Sorties and Hit 40 Percent of the Targets — More Than 1,500 of Them in 43 Nights, Without a Single Loss. 8 Years Later a 1961 Soviet Missile Shot 1 Down.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
The US Air Force Built Only 21 B-2 Spirits and They Cost About $2,000,000,000 Each. It Wants at Least 100 B-21 Raiders at Roughly $750,000,000 Apiece.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
How US Navy Nuclear Submarines Stay Underwater for Months Without Surfacingoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
We Learned Nothing from 9/11original ↗
10 Sept 2026
General Dynamics Is Delivering All 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Tanks to Poland in About 24 Months. Warsaw Ordered Them for $4,750,000,000 Along With 17 Bridge Layers and 26 Recovery Vehicles.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Japan’s Electromagnetic Railgun Fired More Than 100 Shots Without Replacing Its Rails. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 on Its Own Railgun and Shut the Program Down in 2021.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
A UK Ministry of Defence Official Says GCAP Fighter Will Carry Twice the Internal Weapons Payload of an F-35 and Control Uncrewed Aircraft Alongside It. Almost Nothing Else About the Aircraft Is Public.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
81 Years Ago, Army General George Patton’s Advice on History Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Centuries Later, Alexander the Great’s Best Line on ‘Lions and Sheep’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
The US Air Force Retired the F-117 Nighthawk in 2008 and Never Stopped Flying It. The Service Now Says the Aircraft Will Stay in the Air Until 2034 — 26 Years After Its Own Retirement.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Congress Spent $100,000,000 Bringing Just 2 SR-71 Blackbirds Back from Retirement in 1995 and Another $30,000,000 in 1997. By 1998 the Program Was Dead Again.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
100,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Deployed for 326 Days, a Post-Cold War Record. USS Abraham Lincoln Went 264 Days Without a Port Visit. A Normal Carrier Deployment Runs About 7 Months.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
The US Air Force Capped F-22 Raptor Production at 187 Aircraft at About $143,000,000 Each. In November 2009 a French Rafale Costing About 64,000,000 Euros Got Behind 1 and Took the Shot.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
A Laser Shot Costs a Few Dollars. The US Navy Estimates the First Real Shipboard Laser Program Would Cost About $1,000,000,000 Before a Single Destroyer Is Fitted With One.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
64 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur’s Line on Soldiers and Suffering Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Centuries Later, Julius Caesar’s Best Line on Pain and Patience Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
Northrop Spent More Than $750,000,000 of Its Own Money on the F-20 Tigershark Without a Dollar of Pentagon Funding. It Sold 0 Aircraft and Wrote Off About $1,200,000,000.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
The Government Accountability Office Reviewed All 13 Programs in the US Air Force’s $21,000,000,000 B-52 Modernization and Found 10 of Them in Trouble. The Engine Replacement Went From $3,000,000,000 to $15,400,000,000.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
A Dutch Diesel Submarine That Cost Less Than 1 of the Destroyers Guarding the Carrier “Sank” the US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and 7 Escort Warships in 1999. Then It Passed 1,500 Yards From the Carrier to Prove It Had Never Been Detected.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
9/11 at 25: A Failure of Intelligence, Not of the Intelligence Agenciesoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
The F-14 Tomcat’s Engine Was Designed in 1958 for a Short-Haul Airliner. The US Navy Put It in a Dogfighter Anyway, and It Took Until 1988 to Put a Proper Fighter Engine In.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
NASA Spent About $230,000,000 Over 8 Years and Flew the X-43A 3 Times. Its Scramjet Held Mach 9.68 for About 10 Seconds on 16 November 2004, and the Funding Ended Within Weeks — Before the Team Had Published the Results.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
Decades Later, US Army General Dwight D Eisenhower’s Line on Sergeants in the Army Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces Historyoriginal ↗
10 Sept 2026
A Swedish Gotland-Class Diesel Submarine Worth About $100,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group and “Sank” the $5,500,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Ronald Reagan.original ↗
10 Sept 2026
A 16-Inch Shell From an Iowa-Class Battleship Weighed 2,700 Pounds and Reached 24 Miles. The Tomahawk the Navy Bolted On in the 1980s Weighed 992 Pounds and Reached 1,553 Miles.original ↗
9 Sept 2026
‘We Are Not Effectively Allowed to Do Much at All With the Airplane’: A Ukrainian Defense Executive on the F-16, and Why Ukraine’s Industry Would Rather Have Sweden’s JAS 39 Gripenoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
The Dassault Rafale Fighter Costs About $16,500 an Hour to Fly and an F-35A Costs About $42,000. The Rafale Is Not Stealthy, and It Is Selling Better Than It Ever Has.original ↗
9 Sept 2026
Why the Witkoff-Kushner Mission Failed: Washington Still Misreads the Stakes in Ukraineoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2026
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