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With the early light breaking over Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the USS Maryland (BB-46) rested quietly at Battleship Row alongside her sister ship,

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The Nord 1500 Griffon is one of those very odd airplanes that are more like a cutting-edge testbed than an actual fighter plane. France was

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The F-35 Lightning II is hailed as the greatest fighter aircraft in the world, but in its “Beast Mode” setting, it has taken modern airpower

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The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk was never intended to be a show-off—built with one thing in mind: to get the job done. First flight in the

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Few campaigns in modern air warfare have made the impact of air dominance so evident as Israel’s Operation Rising Lion more recently. Within a mere

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If you’ve been browsing the news or doomscrolling on social media in the past few months, you’ve likely heard that America has never been more

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When special forces and police elites go out on a mission, everything from their uniforms to their munitions is selected with precision—and that goes for

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Aircraft carriers have taken the spotlight of naval dominance for more than a hundred years, transforming forts on the ocean that are actually mobile airbases,

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Few, if any, of the fighter planes have had the enduring effect on the craft of war flight as the F-4 Phantom II. It was

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The F-15EX Eagle II is one of those rare airplanes that straddle the distance between old-school fighter muscle and the requirements of the warfighting of

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The race to develop hypersonic missiles is quickly becoming one of the most defining military issues of our time. These fire-at-will missiles—flying at Mach 5

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Few warplanes have transformed carrier-based air power like the F/A-18 Hornet and its larger sibling, the Super Hornet. These aircraft did not merely establish a

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