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Thunderbird camera captured pilot’s safe ejection during crash
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Canada’s First Lockheed F-35 Fightger (Or CF-35) Is Now Flying in the Skies High Above Texas. But It Could All Do Downhill From Here
Aircraft AR-1 lifted off from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, on September 23rd. An aviationist reported…
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If You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Fulcrum: Quirky CRKT Folder Returns
The CRKT Fulcrum 2 is back after a bit of a hiatus. This folder is a Russ Kommer design and…
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The First US Air Force F-35 Stealth Fighters Needed ‘Chilled Fuel’ If Temps On Flight Day Were over 80°F: A Lockheed Martin Flightline Quality Assurance Manager Explained Why
One of the more strange-sounding anecdotes about the F-35 is that some of the earliest test jets apparently flew with…
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An Investigation Uncovered All Propeller Shafts on 65,000-Ton HMS Prince of Wales Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier Had Been Misaligned When the Aircraft Carrier Was Constructed
The Time Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales Broke Down Before Reaching the Atlantic – HMS Prince of…
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Former DOD Director Urges ‘Better’ US AI Investment Strategy to Combat Chinese Tech Advances
A former Department of Defense (DOD) director has urged the U.S. to invest in “better” AI to ward off the…
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Billion-Dollar Rifle Already Scrapped
The XM7/M7: The Army’s Next-Generation Rifle Is Already Being Replaced – The Army spent years and billions of dollars building…
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I Am a Retired US Army Special Forces NCO: The Glock 44 Makes You Better With Your Glock 19. I Still Wouldn’t Carry It.
Some pistols are built for the holster. The Glock 44 is built for the range. Its job is to make…
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‘Those Days are Over”: The US Air Force Admits It Must Completely Change How it Fights Thanks to the Iran and Ukraine Wars
The United States Air Force is creating a new career path to expand the air defense capabilities of America’s flying…
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‘She Broke Free’: The CIA Used a Cover Story to Recover a Chunk of a Russian Ballistic Submarine Armed with Nuclear Warheads But Part of the Sub Slid Back Below the Waves
In the summer of 1974, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, an enormous and bizarre ship called the Hughes…
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