# stealth (news sources) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover stealth. Page: Feed: --- ## [79 Years Later, General George Patton’s Best US Army Line Is Still the Greatest Military Quote in Armed Forces History](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/79-years-later-general-george-pattons-best-us-army-line-is-still-the-greatest-military-quote-in-armed-forces-history/) _2026-08-21 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ The 1947 book got it in fourteen words; the internet adds words it never printed. Patton's good-plan-now doctrine rebuilt II Corps in days, crossed France at 150 miles in 19 hours, and pivoted a quarter-million men ninety degrees to reach Bastogne — the perfect plan would have arrived too late. ## [“It Was the Greatest Mistake We Ever Made”: The US Air Force Wanted 132 B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers and Ended Up with Just 21](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/it-was-the-greatest-mistake-we-ever-made-the-us-air-force-wanted-132-b-2-spirit-stealth-bombers-and-ended-up-with-just-21/) _2026-08-21 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ Killed on live television in 1992, the B-2 became a $2.13 billion bomber by division: a $44.7 billion invention spread across just 21 aircraft — roughly $90 billion and $4.3 billion apiece in 2026 money. Now, with Russia and China risen and the B-21 line running, America faces the same sentence again. ## [A US Air Force F-15E Pilot Was Shot Down Twice in 30 Days: First by a Kuwaiti Fighter, Then by an Iranian Missile Deep Inside Iran](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/a-us-air-force-f-15e-pilot-was-shot-down-twice-in-30-days-first-by-a-kuwaiti-fighter-then-by-an-iranian-missile-deep-inside-iran/) _2026-08-21 · Steve Balestrieri · 19FortyFive_ An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot was shot down over Kuwait in the opening days of Operation Epic Fury by a Kuwaiti fighter in what CENTCOM called a friendly fire incident. He passed his medical and psychological evaluations, returned to combat, and on April 3 - just over thirty days later - was hit by an Iranian surface-to-air missile deep in hostile territory and ejected a second time. ## [The Head of US Indo-Pacific Command Wants 200 B-21 Raider Stealth Bombers in the US Air Force. The Pentagon’s Plan Says 100 But Could Change Fast](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/the-head-of-us-indo-pacific-command-wants-200-b-21-raider-stealth-bombers-in-the-us-air-force-the-pentagons-plan-says-100-but-could-change-fast/) _2026-08-21 · Reuben Johnson · 19FortyFive_ The original plan was to procure 100 B-21 Raiders. Adm. Samuel Paparo, who commands US Indo-Pacific Command, says he would favour 200 - "not just for the nuclear deterrence mission, but for penetrating strike capabilities." Nine days later Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee the Pentagon would require "a lot more - over 100." The last two STRATCOM chiefs have argued for… ## [The North Korea Deal Donald Trump Should Actually Want](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/the-north-korea-deal-donald-trump-should-actually-want/) _2026-08-21 · Andrew Latham · 19FortyFive_ Trump ordered Ulchi Freedom Shield cut from eleven days to five before Kim Jong-un had agreed to anything in return. Kim Yo-jong dismissed the move within two days as cosmetic, and North Korea launched short-range ballistic missiles regardless. It is a low-stakes preview of what a summit without a clear negotiating position produces at much higher stakes. ## [Russia Spent 27 Years and $5,000,000,000 Rebuilding Just 1 Kirov-Class Battlecruiser. She Might End Up As Obsolete as An Old Battleship](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/russia-spent-27-years-and-5000000000-rebuilding-just-1-kirov-class-battlecruiser-she-might-end-up-as-obsolete-as-an-old-battleship/) _2026-08-21 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ The Admiral Nakhimov entered the yard in 1999 and sailed again in 2025 — a refit that quadrupled in cost, outlived its sister ships, and condemned Russia's flagship to the scrapyard. Now the most heavily armed surface ship afloat heads for the Arctic, in the decade that showed what cheap drones do to big ships. ## [US Air Force Problem: The A-10 Warthog Needs To Be Allowed to Retire Even If It Performed During the Iran War](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/us-air-force-problem-the-a-10-warthog-needs-to-be-allowed-to-retire-even-if-it-performed-during-the-iran-war/) _2026-08-21 · Steve Balestrieri · 19FortyFive_ The BRRRRT Act requires the Air Force to keep at least 126 A-10s in service through fiscal year 2033, up from the previously legislated floor of 103, and to restore the depot maintenance, pilot training pipelines and sustainment infrastructure it had wound down. The Air Force has estimated hundreds of millions of dollars a year in savings from retiring the fleet. ## [It Cost $326,000,000 To Bring Back the 58,000-Ton US Navy Iowa-Class Battleships Packed with Tomahawk and Harpoon Missiles](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/it-cost-326000000-to-bring-back-the-58000-ton-us-navy-iowa-class-battleships-packed-with-tomahawk-and-harpoon-missiles/) _2026-08-21 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ The Kirov scared Washington, and Reagan's Navy answered with four Iowa-class battleships it already owned. Lehman's written price — $326 million — held, the program cost $1.7 billion, and in 2026 dollars the whole comeback runs about $5 billion: less per battleship than a new frigate today. The complete cost ledger, the combat record, and how the ledger closed. ## [The Soviet Navy Built 1 Titanium Submarine That Could Dive 3,350 Feet. It Sank in 1989 With 2 Nuclear Warheads Still Aboard.](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/the-soviet-navy-built-1-titanium-submarine-that-could-dive-3350-feet-it-sank-in-1989-with-2-nuclear-warheads-still-aboard/) _2026-08-21 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ She was the only one of her kind: a titanium submarine built to dive below the reach of NATO's weapons, and she set a depth record that still stands. On her first operational patrol she caught fire, and the emergency blow that brought her up fed the flames the air that finished her. ## [100,000-Ton US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Has Been At Sea for 272 Days, Extended Twice Due to the Iran War and That Takes A Toll](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/100000-ton-us-navy-nuclear-aircraft-carrier-uss-abraham-lincoln-has-been-at-sea-for-272-days-extended-twice-due-to-the-iran-war-and-that-takes-a-toll/) _2026-08-21 · Steve Balestrieri · 19FortyFive_ USS Abraham Lincoln Update: The Navy has surged counselors and social workers to a ship whose behavioral health staff amounts to one clinical psychologist for 5,000 people in month nine of combat, and Cao sat with 200 family members in San Diego on August 11. ## [Stop CI/CD & Supply-Chain Attacks (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wy1F1UMIGHPL) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Per-PR: 17 CI/CD checks and package malware scans with inline Check Run findings. ## [The Avro Arrow ‘Gave Birth’ to Canada’s CF-104 Starfighter: Sat Nuclear Alert for a Decade, Crashed 110 Times, and Never Fired a Shot](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/the-avro-arrow-gave-birth-to-canadas-cf-104-starfighter-sat-nuclear-alert-for-a-decade-crashed-110-times-and-never-fired-a-shot/) _2026-08-20 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ The Canadair CF-104 Starfighter: born from the Arrow's cancellation, built for lone nuclear strikes, 110 lost, zero combat. The full Canadian story. ## [The Navy and US Air Force B-2 Stopped Rehearsing: A Stealth Bomber Sank a Ship With a Live Anti-Ship Missile 6 Months After the Gunslinger Drill](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/the-navy-and-us-air-force-b-2-stopped-rehearsing-a-stealth-bomber-sank-a-ship-with-a-live-anti-ship-missile-6-months-after-the-gunslinger-drill/) _2026-08-20 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ February's B-2 and carrier-fighter drill off California was a rehearsal. In June a Spirit fired a live anti-ship missile and put the ex-USS Juneau on the bottom north of the Marianas — the first public confirmation the B-2 carries LRASM, and the clearest signal yet of how America plans to fight at sea. ## [Saturn’s Rings May Be Younger Than the Dinosaurs, Raining an Olympic Pool of Ice into Saturn Every 30 Minutes, and They Are Already Disappearing](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/saturns-rings-may-be-younger-than-the-dinosaurs-raining-an-olympic-pool-of-ice-into-saturn-every-30-minutes-and-they-are-already-disappearing/) _2026-08-20 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ The probes rewrote Saturn's rings: possibly younger than the dinosaurs, raining an Olympic pool of ice into the planet every half hour, ten meters thick across a span of twenty Earths, streaked with spokes physics can't explain, and ringing like a bell that let scientists see the planet's slushy core. ## [The NASA Space Shuttle Cost $200,000,000,000 and Hit Mach 25 Coming Home 133 Times. The Fastest Machines Humans Ever Rode Now Stand in Four Museums.](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/the-nasa-space-shuttle-cost-200000000000-and-hit-mach-25-coming-home-133-times-the-fastest-machines-humans-ever-rode-now-stand-in-four-museums/) _2026-08-20 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ From Nixon's 1972 promise to the museums: the Space Shuttle's development bill doubled, its fleet built the space station and saved Hubble, and two terrible mornings took fourteen astronauts. At every mission's end it hit the atmosphere at Mach 25 and glided home without engines — the fastest machines humans ever rode, now standing in four museums. ## [$6,900,000,000 on Stealth Helicopter Prototypes: The US Army Wanted the RAH-66 Comanche To Be Their Version of the F-117](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/6900000000-on-stealth-helicopter-prototypes-the-us-army-wanted-the-rah-66-comanche-to-be-their-version-of-the-f-117/) _2026-08-20 · Isaac Seitz · 19FortyFive_ Despite the novel ideas behind the RAH-66, the project ultimately never got past the prototype stage. The program simply did not offer enough bang for its buck and was plagued by mismanagement and constantly shifting requirements. ## [Yes, Trump Is Right: The Strait of Hormuz Is Open and Iran Is in Trouble](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/yes-trump-is-right-the-strait-of-hormuz-is-open-and-iran-is-in-trouble/) _2026-08-20 · James Jay Carafano · 19FortyFive_ Analysts dismissed American control of the Strait of Hormuz as a near-impossible task. The US government now says it has been helping tankers move up to ten million barrels a day through it, while the blockade on Iranian exports and imports has tightened. Only weeks ago Tehran was threatening to widen the war and leave no political border safe. ## [F-22 Sea Raptor: The Plan to Turn the US Air Force F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Into A US Navy Aircraft Carrier Warplane That Looked A Little Like the F-14](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/f-22-sea-raptor-the-plan-to-turn-the-us-air-force-f-22-raptor-stealth-fighter-into-a-us-navy-aircraft-carrier-warplane-that-looked-a-little-like-the-f-14/) _2026-08-20 · Brandon Weichert · 19FortyFive_ Vice Adm. Richard Dunleavy publicly questioned whether the Navy needed the F-22 Sea Raptor at all, citing its weight, as Cold War defense budgets tightened. ## [The X-37B Just Passed a Year in Orbit on Its Eighth Secret Mission. Russia Calls It a Nuclear Bomber.](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/the-x-37b-just-passed-a-year-in-orbit-on-its-eighth-secret-mission-russia-calls-it-a-nuclear-bomber/) _2026-08-20 · Harry J. Kazianis · 19FortyFive_ One year into its eighth classified mission, the X-37B keeps breaking its own records: 908 days aloft, stealthy aerobraking, a quantum sensor that navigates without GPS. Moscow says it's a nuclear bomber. Analysts say the bay is too small and the logic too poor — and that the ambiguity itself is the point. ## [North Korea’s Fingerprints Are All Over Iran’s War Against America](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/north-koreas-fingerprints-are-all-over-irans-war-against-america/) _2026-08-20 · Bruce E. Bechtol Jr. · 19FortyFive_ As President Trump downsizes the Ulchi Freedom Shield war games after South Korea declined to help with Iran, one uncomfortable fact goes almost completely unreported: nearly every major weapons system Iran has used against U.S. forces since the war began — the Qiam, the Shahab-3, the "son of Musudan," Yono-class submarines, fast attack craft, and the underground complexes at Natanz and Isfahan —… ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/6rNbBUSUa8dC) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [Ukraine Can Already Reach Moscow With Drones, and a Ballistic Missile Would Change the Warning Time Dramatically](https://www.19fortyfive.com/2026/08/ukraine-can-already-reach-moscow-with-drones-and-a-ballistic-missile-would-change-the-warning-time-dramatically/) _2026-08-20 · Andrew Latham · 19FortyFive_ Drones reached Moscow on three of the last five nights. A ballistic missile would not extend Ukraine's reach so much as compress Russia's warning window. The case made here is that Washington and Kyiv should sort the target categories now rather than in the hours after something goes wrong.