Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

Charles Mitchell

Bomber Power in 2026 Comes Down to Sensors, Tankers, and Payload

Most powerful bomber is not about the brochure data of a single airframe, but the system which surrounds it: the radar which seeks the target, the weapons which hit it and the tankers which carry the complete package across the oceans. Headline platforms are not yet dead stealth, range, payload...
Charles Mitchell

Spot These 8 Fighter-Jet Silhouettes and the Design Logic Behind Them

Aircraft recognition has never been a parlor trick of aviation- nerds. Prior to the proliferation of radar coverage to become dense and reliable, recognizing an unknown aircraft within a short time and in an accurate manner was considered a national capability, and not a pastime. That attitude reached an epic...
Thomas Reed

10 American Pistols That Turned Simple Engineering Into a Bad Idea

A semi-auto pistol is meant to be an issue solved: feed, fire, extract, repeat. Once such a loop is broken, the shooter is left with an object of metal or polymer that may prove to be as much of an inconvenience as it does a genuine danger. The infamous American...