Stealth Bombers

The Navy Planned to Base Stealth Bombers on Aircraft Carriers

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Navy had envisioned the need for a carrier-based penetrating strike aircraft with extended ranges during the 1980s given rapidly advancing Soviet capabilities.  During the...

Would Long-Range Stealth Bombers Have Brought Nazi Germany Back From the Brink?

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Maximizing speed and range, not stealth, was the primary motivation behind the bat-shaped jet plane. Northrop Grumman revealed this year it is developing a second...

Intended or Incompetence? Why the U.S. Military Bombed China’s Embassy

Here’s 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...

Russia and China Are Challenging America’s Stealth Bomber Monopoly

Here’s What You Need to Know: Moscow is serious about investigating its stealth bomber options. (This article first appeared in February 2020.) Recent reports in Russian media are suggesting that Moscow...