David Axe

Forbes Staff|Aerospace & Defense

It’s possible the MiG-31Ks and their very fast missiles mostly are for show. So far it seems there’s more flash than substance to the Russian air force’s hypersonic rearmament program.

Kinzhal could carry a nuclear warhead. And its applications in an atomic war are obvious—obliterate European cities and military bases and speed along the end of the world.

In the next 30 years, the U.S. Navy projects it could spend between $12 billion and $15 billion annually buying between three and four new subs a year.

The U.S. Navy is signaling, albeit tentatively, its willingness to replace some of its existing nuclear-power aircraft carriers with smaller, conventionally fueled light carriers. Here's our guess as to what they might look like.

The administration of lame-duck U.S. president Donald Trump just tossed a hand grenade into the offices of president-elect Joe Biden’s naval transition team.transition team.