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Air Power Just Failed Its Biggest Test: What the Iran War Proved About Winning Wars
41+ min ago (377+ words) The Iran war was as close to a pure air campaign as America has fought, and James Holmes " who holds the J. C. Wylie Chair at the U. S. Naval War College " reads it the way Wylie would have: devastation from the air is…...
China Commissioned This 12, 000-Ton Destroyer in March. By June It Was Off Japan's Coast and Tokyo Was Scrambling to Shadow It.
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (403+ words) The Dongguan entered service in March. Its first Pacific deployment sent it through the Miyako Strait past Okinawa " with Japanese forces shadowing the whole way....
The Era of Strong U. S. Support for Taiwan Is Ending " and Not Just Because of Trump
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (194+ words) Denny Roy: three structural forces " China's buildup, a hollowed industrial base, and a shifted Overton window " may outlast any president....
America's New Trump-Class Battleship Already Costs $17 Billion " and Congress Fears It Will Starve the Aircraft Carriers to Get Built
1+ hour, 47+ min ago (822+ words) Nuclear propulsion sends the Trump-class ship to Newport News " a yard already behind on every Ford-class carrier, sharing one reactor supplier with the subs....
X-15
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (114+ words) Inconel X, the XLR99 Rocket Engine, and a Design That Broke the Rules When the requirement for the X-15 was written in the early 1950s, the world airspeed record stood at under 700 miles per hour. The new research airplane was ordered to fly…...
Voyager 1 isn't dying because anything broke " after almost 50 years it's simply running out of power, and NASA is shutting off its instruments one by one until the signal goes silent.
2+ hour, 20+ min ago (261+ words) Nearly 15 billion miles away, Voyager 1 still whispers back on 20 watts " but its plutonium heart fades a little every year, forcing NASA to switch off its instruments one by one....
Voyager 1 launched in 1977 on a four-year mission, and in November 2026, nearly half a century later, it will become the first object ever to reach one light-day from Earth " so distant that a signal now takes a full 24 hours to cross the emptiness back home
5+ hour, 25+ min ago (192+ words) Voyager 1 launched in 1977 and was built to last five years. In November, it reaches a milestone no machine ever has: one full light-day from Earth....
Drones Just Forced America to Redesign Its Most Famous Tank " the New Abrams Moves the Entire Crew Out of the Turret
5+ hour, 52+ min ago (588+ words) The war in Ukraine has been a rough wake-up call for many militaries around the world. Initially, shrugged off the heavy armored casualties as due to poor-quality Soviet materiel and poor tactics. However, when Western-made main battle tanks (MBTs) entered…...
A Brand New Boeing F-15 EX Eagle II Fighter Just Touched Down in China's Backyard
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (656+ words) An F-15 EX landed at Kadena this week to talk of "the next chapter of airpower" " but the jet belongs to a Florida test squadron, and it's leaving. The base 400 miles from Taiwan hasn't had a permanently assigned fighter since 2022, and…...
China Just Launched Its First Nuclear Submarine From a Shipyard That Builds Aircraft Carriers: Three Yards Now Outbuild America's Two
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (639+ words) For decades, every Chinese nuclear submarine came from one shipyard at Huludao. Then satellite imagery caught something new: a 120-meter boat with an unusually small sail sitting at Jiangnan in Shanghai " a yard that builds carriers, not submarines. An identical…...