Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – France’s nuclear-powered carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) just underscored Paris’s blue-water credibility with a long Indo-Pacific deployment, exercising...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov was the Soviet answer to U.S. carrier power: a heavy, missile-armed STOBAR carrier meant to project fixed-wing...
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Key Points and Summary – Grumman’s F9F-8 Cougar was the U.S. Navy’s swept-wing evolution of the Panther—a timely answer to Soviet and MiG-driven realities...
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Key Points and Summary – Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and...
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Key Points and Summary – The Forrestal-class—Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, and Independence—were America’s first true jet-era supercarriers, conceived to launch heavy strike aircraft and high-performance...
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Key Points and Summary – The Su-33 (born Su-27K) is Russia’s aircraft carrier-based Flanker: a big, long-legged air-superiority fighter adapted for the Admiral Kuznetsov....
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Key Points and Summary – Conceived at the end of World War II and commissioned just after it, the Midway-class—Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and...
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Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Union built the Oscar-class (Project 949/949A) for one purpose: kill aircraft carriers at range with 24 P-700...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Russian Navy does not currently have a new aircraft carrier under construction. Still, it has been designing potential new carriers, most notably the...