Earlier this month, the Japanese government published its latest National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy documents, outlining how Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and his advisers see Japan’s strategic surroundings and intend to manage them. The directives sound a stark and blunt note. For example, the National Security Strategy closes by declaring that “in no […]
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Both guns are U.S. Army classics. Which one is better? We went to the range to find out. Beretta M9 vs. SIG Sauer M17 A few months back, Yours Truly wrote separate articles on behalf of 19FortyFive telling the stories of the current and most recent past U.S. Armed Forces standard issue service pistols, the […]
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As the saying goes, “Speed is life.” But then there’s also the saying, “Speed kills.” When it comes to military aviation, both of these utterances have a degree of paradoxical truth. If the American SR-71 Blackbird – still the world’s fastest air-breathing aircraft – embodies the former mantra, then the Soviet-built MiG-25 “Foxbat” fits the […]
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Anti-submarine warfare capability, or ASW, is one of the U.S. Navy’s top priorities. After all, adversary submarines such as the Russian Typhoon class and Red China’s Type-093A Shang-II Class pose arguably the deadliest threat to American carriers. To counter the threat of silent submersible stalkers, the Navy continues to use an aerial platform that has […]
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There’s an old joke thrown around in, or perhaps it would more accurate to say “thrown at,” the U.S.. fighter pilot community that the difference between a fighter pilot and God is that God doesn’t think he’s a fighter pilot. Be that as it may, if there’s any fighter pilot that does indeed elevate (bad […]
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X-44 Manta – What We Think We Now – Considering all the Lockheed Martin products I’ve written about thus far in my fledgling career as a Contributing Editor to 1945, I feel compelled to state here for the record that I’m not a paid LM spokesperson (though I certainly befriended my fair share of LM employees […]
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M60 Tank Is More Than a Museum Piece – If you’ve ever driven past a veterans’ memorial building, park, or museum, you may have noticed an American tank on the lawn. This is usually an M60 main battle tank – an armored beast that served the nation well for decades. But the M60 is no […]
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The XB-70 was a bomber that, on paper, looked way ahead of its time with impressive speeds and stats that would have made Russia or the old Soviet Union very nervous if she ever flew. (Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Here. Check out More 19FortyFive Videos Here) But the Air Force had to make the […]
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Russia’s Su-47 fighter was truly a one-of-a-kind in that the fighter had some very interesting wing designs. While some have described the fighter as stealthy, this somewhat stealth plane has become a much-discussed aviation subject. We asked a former member of the U.S. Air Force and expert to give us his take on the Russian […]
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A few months back, we at 19fFortyFive published a piece on the M60 “Patton” main battle tank (MBT) – and yes, we acknowledged that the M60 was never actually officially christened the “Patton.” Well, as the tank’s gregarious and flamboyant namesake, General George Smith Patton Jr. would readily agree, that one good Patton tank article […]
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