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How US Navy Nuclear Submarines Stay Underwater for Months Without Surfacing
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (476+ words) A nuclear submarine makes its own air and its own drinking water. The only two things that force it back to the surface are the food it can carry and the people aboard....
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.
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (730+ words) The Navy’s reasons for pursuing laser weaponry are obvious. Conventional air defense systems rely on expensive physical ammunition. For example, an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer can carry roughly 90–96 missiles in its Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells. Once those missiles are depleted,…...
The US Navy Fixed a Price on Stealth Technology Nobody Had Invented Yet, and the A-12 Avenger II Never Flew. 35 Years Later Boeing Lost $4,900,000,000 in a Single Year on the Same Kind of Contract.
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (1238+ words) Lockheed refused to bid. Northrop refused to bid, and told the Navy its cost estimate was at least $2,000,000,000 short. The contract fixed a price of $4,840,000,000 on stealth coatings, composites and a radar that did not yet exist. The team that…...
'I Would Take That Aircraft to the Ship Tomorrow': The US Navy Test Pilot Who Flew Boeing's X-32 Stealth Fighter Says It Was the Highlight of His Career
1+ week, 10+ hour ago (824+ words) The X-32 had a 55-degree delta wing, 20,000 pounds of internal fuel and about 50,000 pounds of thrust. Test pilots said it handled like an F/A-18. It lost on vertical landings....
50 Years Ago Today a Russian Pilot Landed a Mach 2.83 MiG-25 Foxbat in Japan and Defected. The West Took Apart the Aircraft It Had Feared for a Decade and Shipped It Back in Crates.
1+ week, 22+ hour ago (337+ words) On September 6, 1976, Senior Lieutenant Viktor Belenko flew a Mach 2.8 interceptor out of the Soviet Union. Western analysts finally got inside the aircraft that had driven a generation of American fighter design....
A Russian MiG-25 Foxbat Could Hit Could Hit Mach 2.83 and Broke the Record at 123,523 Feet in the Sky
1+ week, 6+ day ago (499+ words) On August 31st, 1977, a Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat made aviation history after it climbed to a record-breaking absolute altitude of 123,523 feet. The record still stands...
$350,000,000 F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Is the Best Dogfighter on Earth. The Dassault Rafale, Eurofighter Typhoon and EA-18G Growler All Have Taken Turns 'Shooting It Down"
2+ week, 2+ day ago (628+ words) A French Rafale in 2009, a German Typhoon in 2012, and a Navy EA-18G Growler at Nellis all reached positions from which they could have killed America's best fighter, the F-22 Raptor....
The US Air Force Planned to Buy 750 F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighters. It Built 187. It Has 184 Left and No More Can Be Built Ever Again
2+ week, 6+ day ago (888+ words) The 1986 plan called for 750 Raptors. Production stopped at 187, and today's inventory stands at 184 - with Congress moving to lock that number in place until 2032....
The US Air Force Lost Nearly 10 Percent of Its 'Irreplaceable' B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Force and No More Can Be Built
3+ week, 2+ day ago (128+ words) The real story of the two losses: each one permanently shrank a national capability, because nothing on Earth can replace a B-2 except its successor....
Russia Thinks It Has a Real US Air Force F-22 Raptor and F-35 Stealth Fighter Killer: The Record Is Clear
3+ week, 2+ day ago (891+ words) The much-vaunted Russian S-400 missile defense system, which was loudly proclaimed by Moscow to be an “F-22 and F-35 killer,” has had mixed results in combat. The S-400 Triumf, known to NATO as the SA-21 Growler, is a long-range, road-mobile surface-to-air…...