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What would you pick?Р’В  (Here we present several of our most popular handgun profiles as one combined post for your reading pleasure. These appeared seperately in 2017 and 2018.) 5 Best Glock Handguns on the Market The Glock 17 handgun shook up the gun industry in a big way. ...

While senior Air Force leaders are calling for a 'fast' pursuit toward production and delivery of its stated F-35 objectives, there are some voices now raising the question as to whether the rates should be sped up even more -- potentially even increasing the overall numbers for the program. ...

One Chinese expert holds a mixed view of Russia's Su-57 stealth fighter, Beijing's state media reported. For all its faults, the Su-57 is 'unique,' Wang Yongqing concluded, according to Global Times .Wang is the chief designer at the Shenyang Aircraft Design Institute, ...

Space and power limitations have stymied the U.S. Navy's own railgun development, which began in earnest in 2005. In 2012, the Navy began land-based testing of two prototype railguns. The Chinese navy apparently has sent a high-tech electromagnetic gun to sea for tests. ...

RAND cautioned that, in light of 'long-term trends in acquisitions and China's quantitatively superior inventory,' Tokyo's reforms 'may not be sufficient to enable Japan to keep pace over the longer term' as the two countries compete over the Senkakus. ...

The AR-500 uses a rimless version of the Smith & Wesson .500 caliber pistol bullet, .500 Auto Max. This allows the bullet to feed from an AR-15-platform rifle. The rounds are thicker yet shorter than 5.56 bullets, resulting in a shorter magazine. ...

The Chinese fleet is much bigger than most people think. And that should compel the United States to reconsider its Pacific maritime strategy, one expert argued. The People's Liberation Army Navy by 2020 will possess between 313 and 342 warships, the U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence estimated. ...

The Navy РІР‚'Р’В  like its fellow sea service the Marine CorpsР’В  РІР‚' saw active-duty suicides hit a new high last year, according to Navy Personnel Command. A total of 68 active-duty sailors and 11 sailors in the Navy Reserve took their own lives in 2018,Р’В  data on NPC's website shows. ...

On January 2019, Singapore announced that it planned to buy a limited number of F-35 fighters for evaluation purposes. While this didn't come as a surprise to many Singaporean military watchers, the decision comes at a tense time for Singapore, ...

Given the Russian threat, the United States Air Force should consider adopting some number of F-35B wings for the European theater. ...

The goal, as Norman put it, is to equip infantry soldiers with an automatic rifle 'that fires a small bullet at the pressure equivalent to what a tank would fire. ...

Russia is developing a stealthy, jet-powered robot warplane. In contrast to the Kremlin's previous, abortive effort to field a killer drone, this latest effort appears likely to produce a useful, front-line aircraft. The first blurry images of the Okhotnik-B drone appeared on Jan. 23, ...

The Trump administration is likely to withdraw from a 1987 treaty between the United States and Russia that banned intermediate-range missiles. The move has triggered alarm in Moscow and in the capitals of U.S. allies in Europe. One objector is more surprising. China. ...

The estimates are dismaying: in a peacekeeping/no-fly zone scenario, the Air Force could only meet 29 percent of C3ISR requirements, 32 percent of tanker demand, 40 percent of special operations missions, and 46 percent of bomber missions. ...

Key point:Р’В It may be then that the carrier is not being rendered obsolete but is evolving (or regressing) into the role that interwar strategists had in mind for itРІР‚'a platform geared towards spotting and perhaps providing fighter cover for a twenty-first century variant of the battleship. ...

Today most of the world's fighters possess a gun. The J-20 is the exception. And the Chinese air force eventually might learn what the U.S. Air Force learned two generations ago over Vietnam. Giving up the gun is risky. China's J-20 stealth fighter doesn't have a gun. ...

The acquisition of power, through the ballot box, in a democracy by political forces that undermine that very democracyРІР‚'by surreptitiously channeling the influence of a foreign state or by using authoritarian tactics to retain powerРІР‚'is the stuff of thriller fiction. ...

The second set of Dolphin submarines,Р’В Dolphin II, was ordered in theР’В mid-2000s. These subs are virtually identical to the previous class except for the addition of a thirty-six-foot-long plug in the hull to accommodate an air independent propulsion (AIP) system, ...

The U.S. Department of Defense's multibillion-dollar budget is enormous, comprising over half of all federal discretionary (non-entitlement) spending. At a time of mounting federal debt and competing fiscal priorities, the Pentagon has, in recent years, ...

'The development of the J-15 took more time and more money than expected, and the first planes proved less than reliable,' said Kashin. 'By spending some more time and money, ...