Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Kitty Hawk-class—USS Kitty Hawk, Constellation, and America—were the Cold War’s quintessential conventional supercarriers. -Built to generate more sorties...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Commissioned in 1961, USS Long Beach (CGN-9) was the first nuclear-powered surface combatant—part fleet shield, part technology demonstrator. -Conceived...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Conceived in 1940 as the apex of American battleship design, the Montana-class traded the Iowas’ speed for thicker armor...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – European governments and industry are floating a “Super Typhoon”: an upgraded Eurofighter Typhoon with ECRS Mk2 wideband AESA for...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Conceived in 1999, Lockheed Martin’s X-44 MANTA proposed a tailless, stretched-delta derivative of the F-22 that ditched vertical and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – China’s PLAN announced its first at-sea EM catapult launches and arrested landings from the Type 003 carrier Fujian, using...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Lockheed Martin is pushing to expand F-22 modernization to include 35 older Block 20 trainers—saving them from scrapping—and to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Su-35 is a non-stealth supermaneuverable evolution of the Su-27, packing powerful sensors (Irbis-E PESA, IRST), thrust-vectoring and long...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In the late 1990s, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, and Lockheed Martin studied the X-44 MANTA—a tailless, delta-winged concept...