How the Argentinians took out a British warship
The Royal Navy combat contingent heading to the Falklands numbered 43 warships. But not all of them would return home.
News Tag: Missiles
The Navy’s plan to keep its warships in the fight: Rearming at sea
The U.S. Navy needs a way to rearm the VLS systems in its warships in order to keep destroyers and cruisers in the fight.
Dark Eagle is one of the US military’s most promising hypersonic programs
In a large-scale, conventional war with a near-peer adversary like China and Russia, hypersonic weapons, like Dark Eagle, could be key.
America’s hypersonic ARRW missile may not be dead after all
America’s previously canceled hypersonic missile known as ARRW may get to see service after all, according to a new DoD report.
Navy taps Lockheed, Raytheon to develop new hypersonic HALO missile
The Navy is making moves to develop a new air-launched hypersonic anti-ship missile under the name Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface, or HALO, missile. This effort, sometimes also referred to as Offensive Anti-Surface Warfare (OASuW) Increment 2, is one of more than 70 hypersonic weapon programs currently drawing funds from Pentagon coffers. In February, Lockheed Martin also secured a contract […]
PROJECT PLUTO: THE MOST INSANE MISSILE AMERICA EVER BUILT
In August of 2019, an explosion rocked the Russian countryside near the village of Nyonoksa. The incident claimed the lives of at least five Russian scientists, and while Moscow managed to keep a lid on what caused the explosion, they couldn’t stop the radiation it released. Before long, the world began to whisper about yet […]
AMERICA’S YF-12 WAS AN SR-71 ARMED WITH AIR-TO-AIR MISSILES
The SR-71 Blackbird may be among the most iconic airframes of the Cold War, but this incredibly fast design wasn’t always intended to serve only as a high-flying set of eyes. In fact, a variant of the SR-71’s predecessor program, the faster and higher flying A-12, actually had a fighter-interceptor sibling in the form of […]
Here’s why last night’s Iranian missile strike didn’t start a war
Last night, Iran launched a number of short or medium range ballistic missiles at military installations inside Iraq that house American troops. While early reports referred to these missile strikes as rocket attacks, the use of ballistic missiles launched from within Iranian borders actually makes the situation far more serious. At approximately 5:30 p.m. (EST) on […]