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Russia's Kilo-Class 'Black Hole' Stealth Submarines Were Sold in Batches to Both China and Iran
5+ day, 22+ hour ago (125+ words) H I Sutton's assessment is that the Kilo-class 'black hole' submarines earned their reputation against extraordinarily noisy predecessors, and that without air-independent propulsion it is no quieter than modern Western conventional boats....
Sweden's Saab JAS-39 Gripen E Costs About $4,700 to $9,900 per Flight Hour Against $38,000 to $42,000 for an F-35A and Up to $68,000 for an F-22 Raptor. It Has No Stealth Airframe, and a Handful of Conscripts With 1 Technician Can Rearm It on a Public Road in Under 20 Minutes.
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (559+ words) A small country facing a much larger neighbor cannot outspend its way to air power. Everything about the JAS 39 Gripen follows from that one sentence....
'A Mistake We Can’t Ever Fix’: The US Navy’s Seawolf-Class Submarine Shortage Makes Russia and China Smile as There Is No Fix
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (537+ words) Virginia-class production has run at roughly 1.1 to 1.2 boats a year since 2022 against a goal of two, while about 24 Los Angeles-class submarines remain in commission and continue to age out. If only the Navy had more Seawolf-class subs....
China’s New Fleet of Aircraft Carriers Have 1 Big Advantage Over the US Navy
3+ week, 5+ day ago (516+ words) Long-term projections envision a Chinese fleet of six to nine aircraft carriers. Beijing operates three today: Liaoning, Shandong and the far newer Fujian. All protected by missiles....
The Dassault Rafale Fighter Costs About $16,500 an Hour to Fly and an F-35A Costs About $42,000. The Rafale Is Not Stealthy, and It Is Selling Better Than It Ever Has.
3+ day, 15+ hour ago (657+ words) A Rafale costs roughly $16,500 per flight hour against about $42,000 for an F-35A. Dassault's answer to stealth is not to hide — it is to out-network what it cannot outrun....
The Pride of Greenville, South Carolina: 4,600 F-16 Fighting Falcon Fighters Have Been Built Since 1976 But Stealth Fighters Like the F-35 and J-20 Have Arrived
4+ week, 1+ day ago (356+ words) The F-16 Fighting Falcon is clearly not a stealth fighter like the F-22, F-35 or even Chinese J-20. And yet, these planes are hardly obsolete....
China's New Chengdu J-36 'Diamond' Stealth Fighter Is a Social Media Superstar That Beijing Won't Officially Admit Exists Just Yet
3+ week, 5+ day ago (573+ words) China has been very careful with the information it releases about its newest aircraft (even the designation “J-36” is not official). It could rival the new F-47 NGAD from Boeing....
20 Decommissioned Royal Navy Submarines Have Sat in Dock Since 1992 Because the UK Had No Way to Dispose of Them.
1+ week, 6+ day ago (891+ words) As the British Royal Navy faces a real shipyard crisis and a shrinking submarine fleet, it is decommissioning its first retired nuclear-powered attack submarine, HMS Swiftsure, at the Rosyth Dockyard in Scotland. London intends to complete this process by the…...
Japan's Taigei-Class Submarine Is A Real-Life 'Lithium-Ion' Submarine and the US Navy Has Nothing Like It
3+ week, 5+ day ago (348+ words) The Taigei-class reportedly incorporates a floating floor structure that isolates machinery vibration before it can propagate into the pressure hull and out into the water, where other vessels would detect it. Acoustic absorbing materials further reduce detectability and blunt the…...
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, 5+ 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...