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France and Germany Launched FCAS in 2017 to Field a €100,000,000,000 Sixth-Generation Fighter Like the F-47 NGAD by 2040. They Killed the Aircraft in June 2026 Because Dassault and Airbus Could Never Agree on Who Was in Charge.
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (497+ words) France needed a carrier-capable jet that could carry its nuclear deterrent. Germany has neither a carrier nor an independent deterrent. The companies were arguing about two different aircraft. That was the end of FCAS...
General Dynamics Is Delivering All 250 M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams Tanks to Poland in About 24 Months. Warsaw Ordered Them for $4,750,000,000 Along With 17 Bridge Layers and 26 Recovery Vehicles.
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (724+ words) General Dynamics Land Systems will finish delivery of the M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks ordered by Poland just two years ago, shipping all 250 Abrams off to Warsaw in just 24 months. Now one of NATO’s biggest defense spenders, Poland ordered the tanks…...
The Government Accountability Office Reviewed All 13 Programs in the US Air Force's $21,000,000,000 B-52 Modernization and Found 10 of Them in Trouble. The Engine Replacement Went From $3,000,000,000 to $15,400,000,000.
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (756+ words) It is the oldest bomber in the United States Air Force, and it is set to keep flying into the middle of this century — and potentially even beyond. The B-52 Stratofortress, the workhorse of the United States nuclear deterrent against…...
'We Are Not Effectively Allowed to Do Much at All With the Airplane': A Ukrainian Defense Executive on the F-16, and Why Ukraine's Industry Would Rather Have Sweden's JAS 39 Gripen
4+ day, 18+ hour ago (885+ words) As of today, the Ukrainian Air Force (PSU) operates two Western, 4th-generation fighter aircraft. These are the US-made F-16 and the French Dassault Mirage 2000. Both platforms are used models donated to Ukraine, with Belgium set to provide another seven F-16s by the…...
'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
6+ day, 19+ 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....
The M1 Abrams SEPv3 Is the Best Tank on Earth Tanks to Countless Upgrades. But the Abrams Getting Too Heavy and Reached Its Limits
1+ week, 2+ day ago (510+ words) The M1 Abrams SEPv3 is the best tank on Earth at the moment. However, the Abrams is out of room to add any more upgrades and the M1E3 is here....
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, 3+ 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....
20 Decommissioned Royal Navy Submarines Have Sat in Dock Since 1992 Because the UK Had No Way to Dispose of Them.
2+ week, 17+ hour 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…...
The US Navy Says the Hormuz Mine Routes Are Now Clear. It Took 4.5 Months, and China Holds 100,000 More
2+ week, 1+ day ago (605+ words) CENTCOM says Hormuz's transit routes are mine-free after 4.5 months. What the clearance means, what mines cost the world, and why China's 100,000 matter....
In the 1960s, Russia Sold Titanium to the US for the Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Spy Plane: The Cover Story Might Have Been Pizza Ovens
2+ week, 2+ day ago (624+ words) The SR-71 needed titanium and the USSR was the world's dominant supplier. The CIA built a network of shell companies and third-country intermediaries to buy it....