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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No Aircraft Combined as Many Technological Advances as the B-29 – During the Second World War, no aircraft combined as many technological advances as the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The long-range, heavy bomber became the “big stick” in the final campaign of the war in the Pacific, and it was a B-29 that delivered the first […]
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Mariupol Mayor Petro Andriushchenko, who was exiled once Russians occupied the region, revealed on Telegram this week that Russian authorities have begun demolishing a famous Mariupol theater. (Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Here. Check out More 19FortyFive Videos Here) According to the exiled mayor, the demolition of the building was half complete as of Friday, […]
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Putin Doesn’t Consider Zelensky “Sovereign Counterpart” – The Institute for the Study Of War (ISW), a non-partisan public policy research organization, said in a report published on December 22 that Russian President Vladimir Putin “continues to refuse to treat Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as an equal and sovereign counterpart.” As a result, the think tank […]
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Ukraine Coming to America? Pentagon Considering Training Ukrainian Soldiers On U.S. Soil: On December 15, the U.S. Department of Defense announced plans for combined arms training for Ukrainian soldiers that would focus on ensuring troops can safely operate advanced weaponry provided by the West. It was first announced that the United States would train those […]
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