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Guns & Gear
The US Navy Canceled the New Constellation-Class Frigate After It Added 500 Tons to Its Own Design Plan
Summary and Key Points: The Constellation-class frigate was meant to be the low-risk program. The Navy took a proven Italian…
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Survivors’ Accounts and the Lucky Break that Saved Lives
American Airlines Flight 77 struck the western face of the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m. Sept. 11, 2001, killing 184 people…
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Russia’s Kilo-Class ‘Black Hole’ Stealth Submarines Were Sold in Batches to Both China and Iran
Summary and Key Points: The Kilo-class submarine has been called the “black hole” for forty years, and the nickname has…
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Shooting at an Aircraft Carrier Is Not the Same as Hitting One. Iran Has Worked Out the First Part.
Summary and Key Points: Iran fired ballistic missiles at a US destroyer and an aircraft carrier over the weekend and…
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Warship ‘Down’: U.S. Navy F/A-18F Fighter Fired a ‘Stealth Munition’ and B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Dropped A Quicksink
Summary and Key Points: On July 19, 2024, the US Navy sank the decommissioned amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa —…
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NASA X-43A Flew at Mach 9.6 and 110,000 Feet — No Air-Breathing Aircraft Has Gone Faster in the 22 Years Since
Summary and Key Points: The fastest air-breathing aircraft ever built was 12 feet long, weighed about 3,300 pounds, had no…
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A US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Lost Both Engines at 83,000 Feet Over Russia. It Fell for Minutes. The Crew Almost Didn’t Make It Back.
Summary and Key Points: In 1984, an SR-71 Blackbird was flying at Mach 3 and 83,000 feet off the Kola…
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Personal Defense
Croatia buys South Korean rocket artillery after HIMARS purchase from the US
WARSAW, Poland — The Croatian government has approved the acquisition of 18 K239 Chunmoo multiple-rocket launchers from South Korea’s Hanwha…
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US Denies that Iran Struck an Uncrewed US Military Ship in the Strait of Hormuz
The U.S. military denied that Iran struck an uncrewed American military vessel in the Strait of Hormuz, calling the claim…
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9/11 Documentaries to Watch on the 25th Anniversary
Jules and Gédéon Naudet were making a documentary about a rookie New York firefighter when the Sept. 11 attacks happened.…
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