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Guns & Gear
NASA Spent About $230,000,000 Over 8 Years on the Mach 9.6 X-43A Hypersonic Scramjet. It Flew 3 Times, the First 1 Was Destroyed by Its Own Booster, and the Engine Ran for Roughly 11 Seconds.
NASA’s Hyper-X program ran for 8 years, cost roughly $230,000,000, and produced exactly 3 flights. The first ended in wreckage…
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170K Files Released by NYC Mayor Mamdani Reveal 9/11 Air Quality Concerns Kept Hidden
A trove of documents released Tuesday by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani show that city officials masked health concerns…
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Forget the F-35 Stealth Fighter: At 87,000,000,000 Operations Per Second, the US Air Force F-15EX Eagle II Is a Real Flying Supercomputer
Summary and Key Points: The Boeing F-15EX Eagle II is not stealthy, and the US Air Force bought it anyway.…
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US Air Force seeks air-defense guns to protect overseas bases
In the wake of Iranian attacks that devastated U.S. bases in the Middle East, the U.S. Air Force wants portable…
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Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Money Building the YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.
Summary and Key Points: Boeing built a stealth aircraft with its own money, out of parts taken from other airplanes,…
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Poland’s in-development fighting vehicle carries newfound defense-export drive
KIELCE, Poland — As Poland’s defense spending has reached record levels, the country aims to increasingly shift from the role…
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Israel Left-Wing Leader Golan Pledges to End Wars After October Election
Yair Golan, who heads Israel’s left-wing Democrats party, said he’ll join the government if the opposition wins next month’s election…
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Hanwha plans to build armored vehicle carrying a counter-drone laser
KIELCE, Poland — As Poland and numerous other NATO eastern flank countries are looking for inexpensive ways to bolster their…
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Trump Says New Space Force Uniforms Inspired by Sci-Fi Film With Nazi Undertones
President Donald Trump’s new Space Force uniform proposals have sparked comparisons to Nazi military attire after Trump said the science…
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In June 1985 Russia Flew 2 Balloons Through the Sulfuric Acid Clouds of Venus. They Rode 150-Mile-an-Hour Winds for 46 Hours and 11,600 Kilometers, and No Balloon Has Flown on Another Planet Since.
Summary and Key Points – In June 1985, the Soviet Union released 2 balloons into the clouds of Venus, which…
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