Steve Balestrieri
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Aerospace, Defense Industry & Global Affairs Analysis
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The US Navy Starting Building and Cancelled in 5 Days an Aircraft Carrier With No Island at All, and Trump Now Wants to Move the One on the Ford-Class
The M2 Bradley Killed More Tanks Than the M1 Abrams Did in Desert Storm
Russian Mines and Drones Destroyed Ukraine’s Leopard 2 Tanks. The Crews Kept Walking Away.
I Own the Glock 19X. This Gun Was First Built to Join the US Army Instead of Being a Civilian Firearm and the Army Said No
‘A History of Problems’: A Victoria-Class Submarine Ran Aground While Submerged in 2011, Then Caught Fire in 2019 and Damaged a Ballast Tank in 2020
A Leaked Royal Canadian Air Force Evaluation Scored the F-35 Fighter at 95% and the JAS 39 Gripen E at 33%
81 Years Later, General Anthony McAuliffe’s 1-Word Reply to a German Surrender Demand Is Still the Greatest Answer in US Army History
I Was a US Army Special Forces NCO: The M4 Carbine Is One Outstanding Weapon and I Know from Experience
14 Years After the Last One Was Delivered, the US Air Force F-22 Raptor Is Still the Best Air Superiority Fighter Ever Built
It Would Have Cost $50,000,000,000 To Restart the F-22 Raptor ‘Factory’ and $259,000,000 Per Fighter: That Meant No More Can Ever Be Build
Standing on the Surface of Venus Would Feel Like Standing 3,000 Feet Underwater on Earth, and It Is 870°F
Iran Bought 185 Chieftain Tanks from the UK and They Could Still Fight the US Army
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