Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS New Jersey (BB-62), the most decorated battleship in U.S. history, stepped back into the same Philadelphia dry dock...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This piece explores a great naval “what if”: a gun duel between America’s never-built Montana-class battleships and Japan’s Yamato-class...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – China’s long-range DF-21D and DF-26 “carrier-killer” missiles have fueled claims that U.S. aircraft carriers are obsolete, forcing them thousands of miles...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary – Iowa-class battleships were monsters of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm—floating fortresses that hurled 16-inch shells deep inland and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The USS Illinois (BB-65) was conceived as a tougher follow-on to the Iowa class and first of the planned...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s refit Kirov-class battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov entering sea trials signals that big, heavily armed surface combatants still matter. -The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Brigadier General Billy Mitchell, the “Father of the U.S. Air Force,” was a visionary who argued that air power...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships cost roughly $100 million apiece to build in the 1940s—an eye-popping sum then, a bargain in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships did something no other big-gun warships managed: they stayed relevant, repeatedly, for half a century. -Built...