The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt-Class Destroyers and Built 3. Each One Cost About $10,600,000,000 With Development Included — More Than 7 Times the Original Estimate — and the 2 155mm Guns on Every Ship Were Never Fired Because Each Shell Reached $800,000.
Summary and Key Points: The US Navy set out to build 32…
The US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Holds Speeds Above Mach 1.5 Without Ever Lighting an Afterburner. Its 2 Pratt & Whitney F119-PW-100 Engines Make About 35,000 Pounds of Thrust Each, and the Fleet Just Passed 1,000,000 Flight Hours on an Engine Last Built in 2013.
Summary and Key Points: Most supersonic fighters get there the expensive way.…
The F-111B Was Supposed to Be a US Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.
Summary and Key Points: In 1961, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara decided the…
Over 4,000 Missiles Failed to Hit a Single US Air Force Mach 3.2 SR-71 Blackbird. Speed Was the Only Way to Survive as It Had No Weapons to Fire Back
4,000 Missiles Were Fired at the SR-71 Blackbird Over 30 Years. Every…
Army Veteran Spills Behind-the-Scenes Details as Lindsay Clancy Murder Trial Juror
A U.S. Army veteran who served as one of three men on…
Georgia Guard helicopters are helping police spot marijuana grows
Hovering over Georgia this summer, National Guard helicopter crews flew from field…
Air Force’s longest-deployed planes finally get to retire
The last of the Air Force’s longest-deployed airplanes finally retired earlier this…
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Coast Guard Contractor Allegedly Fired Over Charlie Kirk Posts Allowed to Sue Trump Administration
Former U.S. Coast Guard contractor Peter Souders is allowed to proceed with…
The Mach 3 US Air Force SR-71 Blackbird Ran on a Fuel So Stable You Could Put Out a Match in It. Then They Had to Invent a Way to Light It.
Summary and Key Points: There is a story, repeated at air shows…