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How US Navy Nuclear Submarines Stay Underwater for Months Without Surfacing
3+ day, 8+ 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, 16+ 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 Space Force X-37B Spaceplane Is 29 Feet Long, Weighs 11,000 Pounds and Has a Payload Bay 7 Feet Long. Nobody Outside the Program Has Ever Been Told What Goes Inside It.
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (463+ words) The X-37B is 29 feet long, weighs 11,000 pounds and carries a 7-foot payload bay. The Space Force announces when it launches and when it lands, and nothing in between....
The Saab 36 Mach 2 'Nuclear' Bomber Has a Message for the US Air Force and Russia
6+ day, 9+ hour ago (284+ words) The Saab 36 was a twin-engined delta meant to penetrate at high altitude and deliver a Swedish nuclear weapon. Its development cost could have approached Sweden's entire defence budget....
Lockheed YF-12A Traveling at Mach 3.2 and 75,000 Feet Fired a Missile That Hit a Target 500 Feet Right Above the Ground
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (679+ words) Long before today’s Pentagon debates about whether future aircraft may need to combine stealth with extreme speed to survive increasingly sophisticated air defense systems, Lockheed had already built the YF-12A, a Mach 3 interceptor derived from the CIA’s secret A-12 reconnaissance…...
NASA X-43A Flew at Mach 9.6 and 110,000 Feet — No Air-Breathing Aircraft Has Gone Faster in the 22 Years Since
6+ day, 19+ hour ago (661+ words) The X-43A weighed about 3,300 pounds, was dropped from a B-52 on a Pegasus booster, and was built to be used once and never recovered. The whole program cost $230,000,000....
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, 19+ 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....
Like 'Time Travel': US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Recalls Flying So Fast He Landed at Beale AFB Almost Day Before Taking off From Kadena AB
1+ week, 19+ hour ago (270+ words) SR-71 Blackbird pilot David Peters flew a pass through the Korean DMZ, refuelled over the Sea of Japan, crossed Kamchatka and the Aleutians, and landed at Beale in time for a drink 17 and a half hours before departure....
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...
Silent Anvil: The US Navy Wants a New Torpedo That Glides to the Target Before It Ever Touches the Water
1+ week, 6+ day ago (377+ words) The Silent Anvil would be dropped from an aircraft far from an enemy submarine, glide silently to the area, then enter the sea and hunt like a normal torpedo....