Author: James JT Thompson

During the late 1960s, the Vietnamese skies were a skill and strategy chessboard, with seasoned MiG-21 pilots from North Vietnam probing U.S. pilots continuously. For

Pearl Harbor is so much more than a location on a map—it’s a living testament to bravery, sacrifice, and the abiding duty to remember. Two

For years, the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyers got heads turning with their space-age design, but critics too frequently questioned their mission. The three ships—USS Zumwalt,

The USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23) is a unique submarine in the history of the U.S. Navy, named after the 39th President himself, a submariner trainee

Decades of looking for stealth and maneuverability have driven the evolution of U.S. fighter planes, replacing engineers and test pilots with the need to defy

The Montana-class battleships are one of those intriguing “what if” tales in naval history—impressive, ambitious, and ultimately a testament to the rapid pace at which

There’s something to the idea of a clandestine American aircraft, scorching the upper atmosphere at neck-snapping velocities—faster even than the legendary SR-71 Blackbird. Speculation around