World Military Machines

04/21/2023

IAI Unveils Its Compact TacSense (ELL-8395) Tactical Electronic Intelligence System

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has unveiled its latest tactical Electronic Intelligence (ESM) system: TacSense (ELL-8395). TacSense delivers unprecedented ESM performance in a compact form factor with minimal SWaP (size, weight and power). This allows TacSense to be deployed from a wide range of....

04/21/2023

F-14 Tomcat vs. MiG-25 Foxbat: These Two Cold War Heavyweights First Went Head to Head 40 Years Ago

In 1982 the first of many air battles between Cold War era heavyweight fighter/interceptors marked the beginning of a new era in tactical combat aviation - an event which had been led up to for two decades by ambitious programs in the United States and Soviet Union. Heavyweights with armed takeoff w...

04/21/2023

These Are the World's Five Most Dangerous Rocket Artillery Systems: War in Ukraine Shows Their Key Importance

Rocket artillery has since the Second World War provided an effective means of conducting long range bombardment beyond the reaches of guns of any calibre, and today allows armies to lay down fire more cheaply and usually at shorter ranges than ballistic or cruise missiles, albeit at a higher cost t...

04/21/2023

F-35

04/20/2023

F-35’s Troubled F135 Engine is Causing Unavailability Rates at 600% of Standard Levels

Since entering service in 2015 the F-35 fifth generation fighter’s Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan engine has represented a major cause for concern in the U.S. Military, with performance issues belying its impressive 20 ton thrust and near unrivalled weight/thrust ratio. One of the leading issues ha...

04/20/2023

Boeing’s New Version of the AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Might Be a ‘Re-Run’

Boeing has released concept footage of a high-speed Apache attack helicopter during the Vertical Flight Society’s 75th Annual Forum & Technology Display- and it looks awfully familiar.

04/20/2023

Meet The Battleship Montana: The Warship That Could Have Changed Everything

The Battleship Montana would have been a new class of warships that would have been the largest in US Navy history –Oh, what could have been. The U.S. Navy planned for the Montana-class to be the successors to the powerful Iowa-class battleships, and as such would have been larger in nearly every ...

04/20/2023

Boeing begins delivery of new wing sets for the A-10 Thunderbolt II

One of the most unmistakable aircraft in the world, the A-10 Thunderbolt II has also proved indispensable to the US Air Force (USAF). Developed by Farchild Republic in the 1970s, the aircraft was conceived with a heavy ground attack mission, using a wide variety of armaments and also the massive 30....

04/20/2023

HAWKER HUNTER AND F35 LIGHTNING II

04/19/2023

USA Announced MOST POWERFUL Ship In The World

04/19/2023

The First 'Super Light' Fighter: America's F-20 Tigershark Was a Failed Predecessor to the JF-17 and Gripen Today

The Northrop F-20 Tigershark lightweight fighter was one of six American fourth generation fighter designs developed during the Cold War, was the smallest and least expensive of all of them in terms of both manufacturing and operational costs. Where the F-15 and even larger F-14 occupied the very hi...

04/19/2023

Evaluating America’s Fifth Generation Fleet Today: F-22 and F-35 Numbers and Performances Far Behind Plans

In December 2005 the United States Air Force became the first service in the world to introduce fifth generation fighter aircraft into service, with the F-22A Raptor gaining an initial operating capability that month after over 25 years of development and over seven years after its first flight. The...