Iran still flies America’s F-4 Phantom fighter jet
Nicknamed the “Flying Anvil”, the F-4 Phantom II twin-engine, tandem-seat supersonic jet interceptor saw extensive service in Vietnam as a...
Maya Carlin
WP Post Author
AT4: The old tank-killer ‘rocket launcher’ that won’t go away
The revival of tank warfare in Ukraine has coincided with a resurgence of interest in anti-tank weapons. Throughout Russia’s invasion, Western nations have provided...
Russia’s Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber is just a paper tiger
Russia’s dwindling fleet of Su-34 Fullback Strike Fighters has made headlines for all the wrong reasons since the onset of the...
Navy battleship USS Texas is making the ultimate comeback
USS Texas Is Getting Some Critical Repairs: Last Spring, the Battleship Texas Foundation revealed that the mighty USS Texas would head to a...
B-1B Lancer bomber has one problem it can’t shake
B-1B Bomber: A history as it heads towards retirement - Late last year, a new B-1B Lancer featuring a range of technological...
Operation Opera: Israel stopped Saddam Hussein from getting nuclear weapons
On June 7, 1981, eight Israeli fighter jets launched a strike targeting Iraq’s nuclear reactor. Dubbed Operation Opera, this daring...
The Houthis did not shoot down the F-22 Raptor over Yemen
Was an F-22 shot down by the Houthis? The answer is no. The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels continue to exploit the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. As...
Why India rents nuclear submarines from Russia
At the end of 2023, Russia and India took steps to expand their military cooperation. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov...
How a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber crashed and was destroyed
B-2 Accident: Since the U.S. Air Force’s B-2 Spirit’s introduction to service more than three decades ago, only one of these...
Columbia-class: The Navy’s new nuclear missile submarines are big, expensive, and delayed
Columbia-class submarine, explained by an expert - The U.S. Navy’s submarine fleet possesses around 70% of America’s operational nuclear deterrent arsenal,...
Why Israel will never fly the F-22 Raptor fighter
Since Hamas carried out its barbaric massacre against the Jewish state more than two months ago, Israel has prioritized the obliteration of...
The forgotten story of how Viet Cong commandos ‘sank’ an ‘aircraft carrier’
In the 1960s, the USNS Card (T-AKV-40) - an old World War II escort aircraft carrier performing supply-carrying duties at...
Russia failed to build a fleet of aircraft carriers for a reason
Why Russia never built a fleet of aircraft carriers: Russia’s sole aircraft carrier is often the butt of a joke, not...
Why Iran still flies the ancient F-4 Phantom fighter
How Iran still flies the F-4 Phantom Since Hamas’ October 7 massacre in Israel, Iranian-backed militias across the Middle East have...
Could Russia stop an F-35 stealth fighter in a war?
Last year, Russian-state media widely circulated videos supposedly revealing an Israeli F-35 failing to counter robust electronic suppression. According to...
Allowing Hamas to dictate the news
In the latest controversy surrounding media coverage of the Israel-Hamas war, the BBC was forced to apologize for reporting grossly false information. One of...