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Christian D. OrrThe National Interest |
Summary: The Dassault Rafale, an "omnirole" fighter, embodies flexibility in modern air combat, per the principles of Giulio Douhet. Built by Dassault...
Summary: The B-50 Superfortress, a successor to the B-29 Superfortress, was a significant part of U.S. military aviation history. -Developed in the...
Swordfish Torpedo Bomber, Explained - To seafood connoisseurs, swordfish is a delicacy. (Mmm, grilled swordfish steaks, anyone?) But in its natural...
In the mostly — but not always — good-natured world of interservice rivalries, the sister services might've been inclined to scoff at the notion...
A former U.S. Air Force officer gives us his expert analysis of the F-4 Phantom: After having made references to the F-4 Phantom in so many of my...
Meet the Churchill VII Flamethrower Tank: Crocodiles are an apex predator. They are one of the deadliest reptiles on the planet, although...
How the SR-71 Became the Fastest Plane in the World: The Lockheed Martin SR-71 Blackbird (or, as its aircrew members have dubbed it, the Habu, after...
Here's a fact you will appreciate: I've actually toured the USS Iowa (BB-61) on multiple occasions. The Battleship USS Iowa Museum in Los Angeles...
The A-6 Intruder is no stealth fighter plane or some sort of Mach 3 spy plane. Nevertheless, its place in aviation history is secure as it was a...
Su-35: Russia's 'Best Fighter' Flopped in Ukraine - In Western society, the number 13 has long been considered unlucky. (Superstitious sports fans...
The Typhoon-Class, a Short History - Fans of The Hunt for Red October, whether the original bestselling novel by the late great Tom Clancy (R.I.P.)...
Russia's Tu-95 Bear Bomber is Ancient - But Still Flying: The bear has long been considered the animalistic symbol for Russia, in the same vein that...
Pity the poor Sukhoi Company of Russia, which has been folded into the United Aircraft Corporation. Life as a Sukhoi/UAC senior executive is...
Anti-submarine warfare capability, or ASW, is one of the U.S. Navy’s top priorities. After all, adversary submarines such as the Russian Typhoon...
M48 Tank: Carrying On the Patton Legacy: The M48 was indeed America's first generation of tanks to fit the MBT concept, but actually, was the third...
The F/A-18 Hornet is admittedly nowhere near as popular or glamorous as the F-14 Tomcat that preceded her in both real-world aircraft carrier combat...
Meet the M47 Dragon: In most medieval tales, the dragon is depicted as an evil beast, deserving of being slain. John Boorman’s 1981 film...
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter came from a veritable blueblood of an aircraft family. That being Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and his legendary...
The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk has a few distinctive historical claims to fame. Perhaps the most famous example is the fact that a Skyhawk was flown by...
The Douglas A-1/ AD-1 Skyraider made her maiden flight on 18 March 1945, i.e. whilst WWII was still raging. If you think she bears at least a passing...
F9F Panther, a former U.S. Air Force officer gives us a detailed history: Seventy-plus-years after the fact, the question of who (as in the pilot)...
Meet the Minuteman III: Back during the American Revolutionary War, the term Minutemen referred to a small hand-picked elite force that was required...
Yuan-Class Submarine, An Explainer: Though not as powerful or sophisticated as nuclear-powered attack subs (SSNs), diesel-electric submarines should...
B-45 Tornado: A Relatively Unsung Piece of USAF Cold War Bomber History - When most folks think of old-school Cold War bombers, the B-52...
Lightweight Fighter Competition - The Forgotten Competition Between the F-16 and F/A-18 - Long before Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon, and...
Through the years, NATO has frequently come up with some rather interesting codenames for former Soviet/Russian-designed aircraft. For example, you...
Meet the X-4 Bantam: In the publishing world, Bantam Books is a wildly successful imprint. Of significance for Bantam in the 1980s was the...
Amphibious Hovering Tank, Explained - The Soviet Communist system by its very nature eschewed entrepreneurialism. However, even under the dark days of...
The MiG-23 is one awful fighter, and the U.S. Air Force thankfully has no fighter jet that can match its terrible history. Pity the poor MiG-23...
De Havilland Mosquito: How good was it? To most Westerners, the mosquito is a blood-sucking insect that's merely an annoying pest. But in some parts...
"Don't give me a One-Double-Oh./The ******* is ready to blow./The AB is there, but you're saying a prayer,/Don't give me a One-Double-Oh." That is...
The H-20 Stealth Bomber: An Ominous Sign of Chinese Airpower Projection? - As if it weren’t bad enough that the People’s Republic of China (PRC)...
Over a decade before Spock introduced legions of Star Trek fans to Planet Vulcan and its cerebral, philosophical humanoid beings, Britain’s Royal...
To Americans, the badger is a predatory mammal that proudly gives a nickname to the state of Wisconsin in general, and her flagship university’s...
Meet the Tu-22M: The first definition of the word “backfire” you will find online is, “(of an internal-combustion engine) to have a loud,...
The U.S. Army has built countless weapons platforms for different eras to battle various types of enemies. The XM25 was oozing with lots of potential...
“Strike Eagle, Strike Eagle, they call me by name/I bombed the hell outta Goldwater Range…” So begins the song that Dick Jonas—Vietnam War...
As hordes of moviegoers flock to the box office to view Top Gun: Maverick, the sequel to the 1986 film Top Gun, the F/A-18E Super Hornet has...
To practicing members of the Christian faith, the initials "B.C." mean "Before Christ." To Canadians, regardless of religious affiliation (or lack...
RAH-66 Comanche: Why did it fail? Some military aviation journalists have dubbed the RAH-66 Comanche attack helicopter as “the F-35 of...
The Bradley Fighting Vehicle is one of those American-made weapons systems — along with the AH-64 Apache helicopter gunship and B-2...
Leclerc: France's Super Tank Is One of the Best on Earth - One amazing tank from France: “I would rather have a German division in front of me...