Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Wasp (CV-7) was not a bad carrier so much as a compromised one. Squeezed under the Washington Naval...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Halibut began life as a Regulus cruise-missile submarine, but its real legacy came after a radical refit turned...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – The F-14 Tomcat was built to defend U.S. carriers from Soviet bombers with long-range radar and Phoenix missiles, not to duel...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – In the interwar years, the U.S. Navy tried a radical idea: turn giant rigid airships into “flying aircraft carriers.” -USS Akron...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – For decades, American supercarriers like the Nimitz- and Ford-class have been the Navy’s ultimate symbols of power projection. -But...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – Developed in secret at Area 51 in the 1990s, the McDonnell Douglas/Boeing YF-118G Bird of Prey was never meant for combat....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – The U.S. Navy has officially taken delivery of the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Massachusetts (SSN-798) from HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding, the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – This piece explains why the U.S. occasionally brings its most secretive assets—Ohio-class ballistic and cruise-missile submarines—deliberately into public view. -It revisits...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – This piece unpacks how China’s undersea force is evolving from crude Soviet-inspired diesel boats into a “good enough” fleet built at...