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The Shah bought the F-14 Tomcat because he wanted something that could reach Soviet reconnaissance aircraft at long range, and paid roughly $2 billion for 80 of them and hundreds of AIM-54 Phoenix missiles.

Dick Casull began wildcatting his namesake round in 1958 and it took until 1997 to get a SAAMI standard — the same year Taurus rolled out a full-lug frame to chamber it. What followed was two decades of the Brazilian gunmaker asking how much cartridge a production revolver could take. The .454 answer runs at 65,000 psi and hits like a rifle. The .480 Ruger answer ran at 48,000, gave up surprisingly little, and was discontinued in 2012 without ever making it into the Raging Hunter line that replaced it.

Summary and Key Points: The Bradley Fighting Vehicle was approved for production in 1980, named for Gen. Omar Bradley in 1981, and was never meant to serve for 45 years. More than 6,700 have been built, and the M2A4 the Army is fielding today, roughly 700 vehicles at about $4.35 million each through 2029, shares […]

The Navy commissioned USS Cleveland, the sixteenth and last Freedom-class littoral combat ship, on May 16. Ten weeks later it decommissioned USS Fort Worth at barely 14 years old, the sixth Freedom-class hull retired early after Freedom, Detroit, Milwaukee, Sioux City, and Little Rock. The class cost north of $20 billion, lost its anti-submarine module in 2022, and was built on a premise the Navy has repeated twice since: adapt an existing design to save time and money.

Around seven of 3,000 bolts were involved, securing pipe insulation, not the reactor, and the ship's logbook recorded a procedural issue with no mention of broken hardware or glue.