Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The USS Texas (BB-35), a century-old dreadnought battleship, served with distinction in both World Wars. A technological pioneer for...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The “battlecarrier” was a late-Cold-War plan to turn Iowa-class battleships into hybrid assault/strike ships, what could have amounted to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This essay profiles five battleship classes—Iowa, Yamato, South Dakota, King George V, and North Carolina—as strategic answers to the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Montana class was the U.S. Navy’s unbuilt “super battleship”: larger than Iowas, with twelve 16-inch guns, thicker armor,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Korean War pulled all four Iowa-class battleships—Missouri, New Jersey, Iowa, and Wisconsin—back into combat, where their 16-inch guns...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Yamato, pride of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the heaviest battleship ever built, met a brutal end during Operation...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as the fifth Iowa-class battleship, laid down in late 1942 at Philadelphia. -By 1945...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Between 1982 and 1992, the U.S. Navy resurrected its four Iowa-class battleships, turning WWII gun platforms into multi-role missile...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Article Summary: Battleships Won’t Return—Destroyers Already Took Their Throne -Calls to revive U.S. battleships resurface now and then—most recently via President Trump—but nostalgia collides...