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How US Navy Nuclear Submarines Stay Underwater for Months Without Surfacing
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (476+ words) A nuclear submarine makes its own air and its own drinking water. The only two things that force it back to the surface are the food it can carry and the people aboard....
The Saab 36 Mach 2 'Nuclear' Bomber Has a Message for the US Air Force and Russia
6+ day, 8+ hour ago (284+ words) The Saab 36 was a twin-engined delta meant to penetrate at high altitude and deliver a Swedish nuclear weapon. Its development cost could have approached Sweden's entire defence budget....
'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
1+ week, 6+ 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, 6+ 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...
14 Years Later, China Has Gone From a Second-Hand Soviet Aircrcraft Carrier to a 1,050-Foot Supercarrier
2+ week, 6+ day ago (605+ words) The Liaoning, a refitted Soviet ski-jump hull aircraft carrier, entered service in 2012. Fourteen years on, satellite imagery shows a supercarrier taking shape at Dalian....
$600,000,000 Mach 22 X-20 Dyna-Soar: Neil Armstrong Was Training to Fly a Spaceplane the Pentagon Cancelled in 1963
3+ week, 3+ 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…...
Japan's Taigei-Class Submarine Is A Real-Life 'Lithium-Ion' Submarine and the US Navy Has Nothing Like It
3+ week, 6+ 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…...