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Summary and Key Points: On November 6, 1971, the U.S. conducted its largest underground nuclear test, the five-megaton Cannikin shot, on Amchitka Island, Alaska. The test was for a warhead...

Summary and Key Points: The 9mm Luger, introduced in 1901, remains one of the longest-serving gun calibers in history, widely used from World War I to present-day conflicts. -Its renewed...

Summary: At the MAKS 2019 air show in Zhukovsky, Russia, the Su-47 Berkut, a remarkable but ultimately unsuccessful piece of Russian military aviation from the 1990s, was put on display, marking...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: While both the Su-47 and the X-29 never made it past the prototype stage, they were important for pushing the limits of what was possible,...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: If the B-21 does fly in 2021, as planned and ends up including the air-to-air capabilities that have been proposed, it could finally fulfill the...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Taiwan is counting on drones to counter China’s expanding advantage in ships, planes and troops. China can muster potentially thousands of aircraft, hundreds of ships...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Fighters arguably are the least important system for this new strategy, although they could play an important role firing anti-ship missiles at Chinese invasion ships,...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: The Navy undoubtedly ran similar simulations of its own, with similar results, for a year after Mizokami played out the destruction of two LCSs, the...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Iranians believed the objects were spy drones belonging to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, sent to sniff out Tehran’s suspected atomic weapons program. But...

Here’s What to Remember: Formation flying is more than a photo-friendly exercise. A U.S. Navy carrier strike group and U.S. Air Force bombers conducted simulated military strikes near Iran over the...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: China’s biggest shortfall is probably not a matter of hardware. It takes nearly 200 skilled pilots, maintainers and analysts to support a single sortie by...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The strike on Syria was probably not decisive in preventing Syria from getting a nuclear weapon; the program was a long-shot from the beginning, and...