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The US Air Force Once Blew Up a Satellite—Just to Prove It Could

22.12.2025 2

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Why Wasn’t the US Air Force Interested in the YF-23 Fifth-Gen Fighter Prototype?

22.12.2025 7

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MH-65 Dolphin: The Coolest Helicopter You’ve Never Heard Of

22.12.2025 8

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Why the U-2 Dragon Lady Spy Plane Is an Astonishing Feat of Engineering

22.12.2025 5

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What Is the US Navy’s “Advanced Arresting Gear”—and Why Is It So Controversial?

21.12.2025 10

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Here’s How a US Attack on Venezuela Might Play Out

21.12.2025 10

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Why Do Fifth-Gen Fighter Jets Use “Thrust Vectoring”?

21.12.2025 10

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Will Any Plane Ever Come Close to Beating the F-22 Raptor?

15.12.2025 9

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Why Does the B-2 Spirit Bomber Cost So Much to Fly?

14.12.2025 4

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How the Soviet Union Accidentally Helped America Build the F-117 Nighthawk

14.12.2025 3

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How the AV-8B Harrier “Jump Jet” Revolutionized Vertical Takeoff Technology

14.12.2025 10

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How Are Modern Aircraft Wings Designed?

13.12.2025 4

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Why Are All Modern Fighter Jets “Multirole” Aircraft?

13.12.2025 6

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What Does a Fighter Jet “Backseater” Actually Do?

12.12.2025 3

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How the F-20 Tigershark’s Failure Changed the Aviation Business Forever

11.12.2025 5

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Could Venezuela’s Navy Stand Up to the US Navy? Not for Long

10.12.2025 4

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Should America Be Worried About Venezuela’s F-16 Fleet? Not Really.

08.12.2025 6

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How America’s AIM-9 Sidewinder Air-to-Air Missile Conquered the Skies

08.12.2025 10

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Does Speed Still Matter for Fighter Jets?

07.12.2025 4

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The AGM-88 HARM Is Still an Important Part of the Nation’s Air Defenses

05.12.2025 4

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How the US Air Force’s F-111 Aardvark Changed Air Warfare Forever

05.12.2025 3

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Why Do Modern Fighter Jets Still Have Guns?

01.12.2025 5

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Why the Royal Australian Air Force Punches Way Above Its Weight

01.12.2025 4

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How Do Aircraft “Jamming Pods” Work?

01.12.2025 4

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Why Did the US Navy Get Rid of the EA-6B Prowler?

30.11.2025 6

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How the J-20 Mighty Dragon Aids China’s Fearsome Air Defense Network

29.11.2025 5

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How Worried Should America Be About China’s Submarine Fleet?

29.11.2025 4

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What Is “Anti-Access/Area Denial” Technology, and Why Does It Matter?

28.11.2025 10

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Is China’s J-20 “Mighty Dragon” Fighter Jet Stronger than the F-35?

28.11.2025 6

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Is the EA-18G Growler the Most Important Plane in the US Navy?

28.11.2025 6

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Venezuela Doesn’t Stand a Chance Against the USS Gerald R. Ford

25.11.2025 3

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What Makes America’s F/A-18 “Super Hornet” So Super?

24.11.2025 6

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Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missiles: The Most Dangerous Weapons Ever Made?

24.11.2025 5

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J-20 v. F-22: How Do China’s and America’s Greatest Fighter Jets Stack Up?

22.11.2025 10

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Why Does the USS Gerald R. Ford’s Venezuela Deployment Matter?

21.11.2025 8

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How the RQ-4 Global Hawk Changed American Intelligence Collection Forever

20.11.2025 4

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How the US Navy Kept the F-14 Tomcat Relevant in the 21st Century

18.11.2025 8

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How the UK’s “Sea Harrier” Fighter Jet Annihilated Argentina’s Air Force

18.11.2025 3

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Argentina’s A-4AR Fightinghawk Fighter Jet Belongs in a Museum

17.11.2025 4

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China’s AI Drone Swarms Should Terrify the United States

16.11.2025 5

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How the Mirage III Fighter Jet Revolutionized French Aviation

15.11.2025 2

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What Do We Know About Boeing’s Secret X-37B Space Drone? 

12.11.2025 3

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Ronald Reagan’s “Star Wars” Plan Was the Forerunner to Trump’s “Golden Dome”

12.11.2025 3

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The 10 Most Expensive Military Aircraft Ever Built

11.11.2025 4

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Why Don’t B-1 Lancer Bombers Carry Nuclear Weapons Anymore?

10.11.2025 3

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The UK’s Nuclear Arsenal Is Tiny—but Big Enough for Deterrence

10.11.2025 3

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Here’s Why America’s “THAAD” Air Defense System Is So Useful

10.11.2025 3

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Why Ejecting from a Fighter Jet Is So Dangerous

10.11.2025 3

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How Were Modern Helicopters Invented?

06.11.2025 2

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China Needs a New Bomber to Replace the H-6

05.11.2025 3

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