Invincible Empire No Longer Taboo: Pro-Navy Senator Warns Aircraft Carriers May Be “Obsolete”, “Sitting Ducks” for Hypersonics How do you shoot down a hypersonic missile when you can't even take down a normal one? David B. Larter 21 Aug 19 15563 22
Invincible Empire Despite Record Budgets, US Navy Short Hundreds of Millions for Maintenance If Raytheon can't run away with billions from it, it's not a priority David B. Larter 20 Aug 19 612 4
Invincible Empire Just 6 of Empire’s 61 B-1 Bombers Are Combatworthy Blowing up Afghan shepherds for twenty years has taken its toll Dario Leone 1 Aug 19 1349 17
Invincible Empire Empire’s Navy Has Nearly No Minesweeping or Minelaying Capability Probably not enough money to be made for the military-industrial-congressional complex in a weapon so simple and effective Navy Matters 28 Jul 19 840 3
Invincible Empire If US Military Knew How to Do Anything It Was How to Land Troops — No More Lessons of Anzio, Salerno, Overlord, Inchon and of a hundred Pacific islands have all been unlearned Navy Matters 27 Jun 19 989 10
Invincible Empire F-35’s Logistics System Has No Way for Foreign F-35 Operators to Keep Their Secret Data from Being Sent to the US Pentagon says won't fix critical F-35 flaws before mass production because they have "acceptable workarounds" Marko Marjanović 14 Jun 19 709 7
Invincible Empire Navy and Marine F-35s Can’t Do Steep Climbs or Go Supersonic Without Burning Off Their Stealthy Coating and Tails More great features revealed David Axe 14 Jun 19 1326 6
Invincible Empire Fewer Than 15 Percent of America’s B-1 Bombers Are Airworthy Just keep shoveling that money over to F-35s Kyle Mizokami 12 Jun 19 1639 1
Invincible Empire US Navy’s New $14 Billion Carrier Class Can’t Launch F-35s MIC's destruction of Empire's naval power continues apace Joseph Trevithick 8 Jun 19 1839 4
Invincible Empire Time to Fire the Secretary of the Navy? Super Carrier USS Gerald Ford Suffers New Setback US Secretary of the Navy promised functional elevataros by July, or "fire me" — it's doubtful they'll be ready by October Paul McLeary 31 May 19 784 4
Invincible Empire Privately the US Navy Knows Its Miracle Littoral Combat Ships Are Useless in a Fight That's why it has them chasing drug smugglers rather than training for war Navy Matters 29 May 19 1855 4
Invincible Empire Pentagon Can Only Buy American so Defense Contractor Ordered “Made in America” Uniforms From China Defense contractors — pillars of integrity Mark Bain 29 May 19 570 4
Invincible Empire Future Warfare: F-35s to Leisurely Direct Countless Missiles by Other Planes as Enemy Obediently Lines up to Be Obliterated Future warfare will be a doozy. Just ask the Pentagon and Lockheed-Martin Navy Matters 23 May 19 1271 14
Invincible Empire The US Military-Industrial Complex Is a Virus Eating Away at Actual American Military Power It's concerned only with self-preservation and expansion, and perfectly happy to do so at the expense of actual US military effectivness Andrew Cockburn 18 May 19 1197 6
Invincible Empire Watch as US Now Tries to Reign in Russia’s Game-Changing Strategic Weapons With Arms Control Treaties Why is the treaty-ending Trump admin suddenly talking up arms control? Take a lucky guess Andrei Martyanov 16 May 19 2032 11
Invincible Empire F-35 Deja Vu: The US Air Force Promised the F-4 Would Never Dogfight USAF warplanners have been promising the era of beyond-visual kills since the 1960s David Axe 10 May 19 1134 2
Invincible Empire Classifying Defeat: Hiding Data on the Losing Afghan War "I kind of get it. The news out of Afghanistan is so awful, and 'progress' so fitful, that I wouldn’t want to report it either" Danny Sjursen (US Army major, retired) 9 May 19 743 6
