The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird remains an icon of engineering audacity, a spy plane that redefined reconnaissance when it joined the U.S. Air Force decades ago. It’s not armed with bombs or guns—its weapons are altitude and speed, cruising at a blistering Mach 3.2, or over 2,200 miles per hour, while soaring to 85,000 feet. That […]
The F-22 Raptor remains a marvel, a fighter jet so advanced it’s flown solo atop the skies since its debut in 1997, unchallenged until it notched its first combat kill—a Chinese spy balloon off South Carolina—in 2023. That it emerged unscathed from that odd “dogfight” only burnishes its legend. Yet, what’s striking is the U.S.’s […]
There’s something deeply unsettling about the B-2 Spirit bomber—not just its capacity for destruction, but the way it embodies our peculiar relationship with technology and warfare. At $2 billion per aircraft, it’s the most expensive warplane ever built, a flying testament to both human ingenuity and our willingness to spend astronomical sums on the machinery […]
