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$600,000,000 Mach 22 X-20 Dyna-Soar: Neil Armstrong Was Training to Fly a Spaceplane the Pentagon Cancelled in 1963
3+ week, 2+ day ago (854+ words) The X-20 Dyna-Soar didn't fail because the concept was wrong. It failed because it arrived sixty-three years before the US was ready to fly it without asking who was in the cockpit. And it offers a glimpse of what future wars…...
'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, 15+ 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....
'I Would Take That Aircraft to the Ship Tomorrow': The US Navy Test Pilot Who Flew Boeing's X-32 Stealth Fighter Says It Was the Highlight of His Career
6+ day, 13+ hour ago (824+ words) The X-32 had a 55-degree delta wing, 20,000 pounds of internal fuel and about 50,000 pounds of thrust. Test pilots said it handled like an F/A-18. It lost on vertical landings....
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...
The 65,000-Ton HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales Are the Largest Aircraft Carriers the Royal Navy Ever Built. Neither Has a Catapult, Which Limits Both Ships to 1 Aircraft: The F-35B
1+ week, 2+ day ago (372+ words) HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales have no catapults and no arresting wires. That rules out the F/A-18, the EA-18G Growler, the E-2D Hawkeye and the F-35C, leaving only the F-35B....
The Lockheed Martin SR-72 'Son of Blackbird': It Could Hit Mach 6 and 80,000 Feet But No One Really Knows If It Exists
1+ week, 5+ day ago (381+ words) Revealed in 2013, scrubbed from Lockheed's own website in 2018, reborn as Top Gun's SR-72 Darkstar, and trailed by a $950 million classified charge in the company's filings — the Mach 6 Son of Blackbird has spent thirteen years as America's most discussed unconfirmed aircraft....
Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales Has Spent About 1 Third of Its Life in Port Under Repair and Only About 1 Fifth of It at Sea. The 2 Queen Elizabeth-Class Carriers Cost £7,600,000,000
1+ week, 2+ day ago (440+ words) British parliamentary reporting puts HMS Prince of Wales at roughly a third of her service life alongside for repairs. HMS Queen Elizabeth has spent extended periods in dry dock on hull and shaft work....
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....
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
23+ hour, 55+ min ago (396+ words) At full speed the fastest submarine ever built, the K-222 (also known as the Papa-class or Project 661) was so loud it announced itself. The thing it relied on to escape pursuit was the thing that told pursuers where it was....
The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird Came Back From Every Mission 3 to 4 Inches Longer Than It Took Off. At Mach 3.2 the Titanium Skin Ran Around 620 Degrees Fahrenheit, So Lockheed Built the Panels Loose on Purpose and the Fuel Tanks Leaked on the Ramp Until Heat Swelled the Joints Shut.
1+ hour, 19+ min ago (791+ words) A SR-71 Blackbird sitting cold looked badly made — gapped skin, razor edges, fuel pooling underneath. It only fit together properly at 600 degrees and three times the speed of sound....