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The Mach 3 US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Ran on a Fuel So Stable You Could Put Out a Match in It. Then They Had to Invent a Way to Light It.
Summary and Key Points: There is a story, repeated at air shows and in hangar talk for half a century,…
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F-22 pilot awarded Air Force’s top flight safety honor
A F-22 pilot had to think quickly and work out a plan to save his plane when a tribute flight…
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The US Navy’s New $23,400,000,000 Nuclear Trump-Class Battleship Keeps Getting Called Obsolete Thanks to Drones. Chinese Military Experts Just Tested That Theory Out
Summary and Key Points: The Trump-class battleship, designated BBG(X), was ridiculed by naval experts and enthusiasts the moment it was…
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45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.
Summary and Key Points: The USS Alabama measures 108 feet 2 inches across the beam. The locks of the Panama…
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Russia Built a Titanium Hulled ‘Golden Fish’ Nuclear Submarine That Could Hit 44 Knots That Had 2 Reactors. The Goal Was to Hunt US Navy Aircraft Carriers
Summary and Key Points: The Soviet Union built one submarine capable of outrunning everything in the ocean, essentially, and then…
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To Fly the US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird at Mach 3 and 85,000 Feet You Needed an Astronaut’s Body, Iron Nerves, and the Stomach to Outrun Soviet Missiles
Summary and Key Points: The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird could outrun anything an enemy fired at it, and that was the…
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China Bolted an Electromagnetic Railgun to the Bow of a Type 072III Landing Ship in December 2017 and Has Kept It at Sea Ever Since. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 Over 15 Years, Never Got Its Gun to Sea at All, and Cancelled the Program in July 2021.
Summary and Key Points: In the winter of 2018, a photograph spread across the Chinese internet showing a People’s Liberation…
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My Thoughts on September Being National Preparedness Month – reThinkSurvival.com
I would’ve totally forgotten that September was National Preparedness Month, except that my AI overlords like to remind me of…
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The Soviet Union Soft-Landed 8 Venera Spacecraft on the Surface of Venus Between 1970 and 1982, in 870 Degrees Fahrenheit and 92 Times Earth’s Atmospheric Pressure. The United States Has Never Landed on Venus Once.
Summary and Key Points: The United States won the race to the Moon, has dominated Mars for fifty years, and…
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Air Force Veteran Chase DeMayo Shares Near-Death Experience
The life of an active duty member of the military can be a dangerous one, and not just on a…
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