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Key Points – The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were the US Navy’s largest and last battleships, designed in the late 1930s with...
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Key Points – The F-14 Tomcat, an iconic US Navy fighter popularized by Top Gun, could have evolved into an even deadlier “Super Tomcat”...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – China’s advancing hypersonic missile program, notably the operationally deployed DF-17 road-mobile system which launches the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle (Mach 5-10...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The USS Nimitz (CVN-68), the lead ship of its class and a symbol of US naval power for 50 years, is...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – On January 8, 2005, the US Navy fast attack submarine USS San Francisco struck an uncharted undersea mountain at high speed...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The US Navy’s SSN(X) next-generation attack submarine program faces severe scrutiny due to its extremely high projected cost (between $6.7 to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The October 2, 2021, collision of the USS Connecticut submarine (SSN-22) with a dangerous undersea seamount in the South China Sea...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Reactivating or building new Iowa-class battleships for the US Navy is an impractical notion. These World War II-era giants, despite a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – Despite recurring claims of their obsolescence due to advancements in drones and surveillance, submarines, particularly nuclear-powered ones, remain more critical than...