Lockheed Martin has successfully carried out the first flight demonstration of the F-16 Block 70 aircraft from its production site in Greenville, South Carolina, US. Conducted on 24 January, the flight lasted for 50 minutes....
Born at the same time as the famous Soviet MiG-21 fighter, the Northrop F-5 has proven to be a platform with impressive performance, low cost, and low maintenance costs. Though primarily designed for a day air superiority role,...
A CGI video details the concept of an AI-driven Sky Cruise hotel-plane model that can stay airborne for months, and land to pick up passengers anywhere. This futuristic combination of plane and hotel has up to 20 electric motors...
China’s first aircraft carrier, Liaoning, celebrated its birthday by carrying in what appears to be a full load of 24 J-15 carrier-borne fighters on September 25 – the largest number of J-15 fighters ever publicly seen. This...
What did the X-37B perform in orbit for longer than its previous record of two years? The X-37B landed at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on 12 November after 908 days in orbit Boeing/U.S. Space Force The secretive X-37B...
Teadicopter – a leader in the Rotary Unmanned Aerial Systems (RUAS) industry, and BIRD Aerosystems – a global provider of innovative defence Technology and solutions that protect the air, sea, and land fleets of governments and...
The U.S. Navy Loved the Grumman F-14 Tomcat – Developed for the United States Navy’s Naval Flight Experimental (VFX) program in the late 1960s, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was introduced in 1974 and went on to see service for the...
The Stryker is a family of eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicles derived from the Canadian LAV III. Stryker vehicles are produced by General Dynamics Land Systems (GDLS) for the United States Army. It has four-wheel drive (8×4)...
Each of the ship in the Ford-class will save $4b in total ownership costs during its 50-year service life. An aircraft carrier is a warship which serves as a seagoing airbase. It is a symbol of prestige and power for the navies...
Poseidon was the brother of both Hades, the god of the underworld, and Zeus, the sky god and principal deity of classical Greece. The kingdom of the sea was given to Poseidon when the three brothers overthrew their father. He therefore...
The U.S. Navy Loved the Grumman F-14 Tomcat – Developed for the United States Navy’s Naval Flight Experimental (VFX) program in the late 1960s, the Grumman F-14 Tomcat was introduced in 1974 and went on to see service for the...
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Battleships appeared most prominently in the two world wars. According to the National Interest, battleships are the largest battleships ever built in the world. In addition to shoe armor, they are also equipped with large-caliber...
There will always be a debate over what were the “best” jet fighter planes to head off into the wild blue yonder – but context must be considered. A German Messerschmitt Me 262 would hardly hold its own against an F-4 Phantom,...
Conceived by Jack Northrop as a large wing-only, long-range heavy bombers, the Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 were experimental airplanes developed by the Northrop Corporation for the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) during and shortly after...
I was in the Navy but never on an aircraft. However, I remember that absolutely everybody took fire drills and fire-fighting training 100% seriously onboard ship. Just about every other aspect of Navy life had some joking around or...
The first time fixed-wing aircraft have flown from a Japanese battleship since World War II occurred on October 3 when two Marine Corps F-35B Lighting II Joint Strike Fighters took off and landed aboard Japan’s biggest cruiser, JS...
Yes, the F-35 surely is one controversial stealth fighter, even after countless successful milestones met and nations lining up all over the world to purchase it. Yes, the program will cost over $1 trillion over its entire multi-decade...
Turkey does not have the capacity, either financially or professionally, to develop its own air defense systems that are on par with those developed by Russia’s S-400 or those developed by the United States’ Patriot. Patriot...
President Zelensky lauded the Iron Dome as the most effective anti-missile system now available on the market, and he questioned the motivations behind Israel’s decision not to provide Ukraine with this protective weaponry. On...
The AV-8B was developed as a second-generation Harrier, primarily for the US Marine Corps. The Harrier II entered USMC service in 1984 and participated extensively in the 1991 Gulf ധąɾ. This aircraft is routinely deployed onboard...
