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The B-1B’s role in America’s military arsenal has been more of an odyssey than others. Heres What You Need to Know: From nuclear bomber to missile carrier, the supersonic bomber has been flexible enough to adapt to a changing strategic environment. Like many warplanes since the end of the Cold War, the B-1B bomber’s role in American airpower has changed to embrace new missions. Unlike other planes, the B-1’s mission changed even before the first aircraft took off. What started as a hig...

Stealth is king. Heres What You Need to Remember: Stealth doesn’t just apply to aircraft—submarines have been incorporating stealthy features for decades. Among submarines, the most powerful combination of lethality and stealth is almost certainly the Ohio-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines. Stealth, or the idea of reducing the ability of the enemy to detect a weapon, has been around since the first caveman sewed a pocket into his clothing and hid a rock in it. Thousands of...

Why China Never Wants to See Another B-2 Flying Over Its Embassy During NATO’s 1999 air war over Yugoslavia, the Atlantic alliance struck hundreds of targets over Serbia and Kosovo. Heres What You Need to Remember: The rush to conspiracy on the part of China is in some ways understandable. There is no obvious reason why the Chinese embassy in Belgrade should be bombed, especially by an all-seeing and all-powerful American military. During NATO’s 1999 air war over Yugoslavia, the Atlantic a...

Stealth doesn’t just apply to aircraft—submarines have been incorporating stealthy features for decades. Heres What You Need To Remember: Ironically, much of the work on these stealth planes originated from a Soviet mathematical paper that the Kremlin, not understanding its importance, had released - and translated into English! Stealth, or the idea of reducing the ability of the enemy to detect a weapon, has been around since the first caveman sewed a pocket into his clothing and hid a ro...