Why the Bronze Age collapsed
Historians like to blame drought, famine and invaders. But this can’t explain why the empires never came back.
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Why the US has nothing like the European MBDA Meteor Missile
What makes the MBDA Meteor such an amazing air-to-air missile and why doesn’t the US have anything like it?
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One Army plant in Kingsport, Tennessee, is the only US manufacturer of the military explosives RDX and HMX. The plant, Holston, supplies most of the explosives used in US bombs, missiles and artillery shells. In 1980 five US plants could make about 119 million pounds of RDX a…
This Screw Is Needed for Missiles and Planes. Buying One Can Take Years.
As the Trump administration scrambles to increase the production of munitions, these special screws are expensive and hard to source.
Space Force officially has its own weapon for taking out satellites
Space Force’s newest tool blinds enemy spacecraft from the ground to disrupt their communications and tracking systems.
Up to 100 gigawatts: China unveils its high-power microwave weapon arsenal
Defence scientists say the technology could threaten low Earth orbit satellite networks such as Starlink at an extremely low cost.
Our Best Look Yet At The Massive Ordnance Penetrator Bunker Buster Bomb
The bomb's marking show it is less than 1/5th explosive by weight and that skews even more when the fins and guidance kit are added.