Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 1963 loss of the nuclear submarine USS Thresher with all 129 personnel aboard was a pivotal disaster that...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The sinking of the K-278 Komsomolets in 1989 was a disaster rooted in the risks of an experimental design....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – A deep dive is taken into the tragic, but often forgotten, 1989 sinking of the K-278 Komsomolets, a unique,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In 2015, HMS Talent—a Trafalgar-class attack sub—struck floating ice while tracking Russian submarines, ripping a six-foot hole in her...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In 1992, USS Baton Rouge collided with Russia’s B-276 Kostroma in the Barents Sea during a covert patrol, a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In January 2005, the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS San Francisco (SSN-711) slammed—at flank speed—into an uncharted seamount southeast...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Sierra class (Projects 945 and 945A) wrapped a modern attack submarine around a titanium pressure hull to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Britain has commissioned HMS Agamemnon, the sixth Astute-class attack submarine, in a Barrow-in-Furness ceremony attended by King Charles III—on...
North Korea Talk
Key Points and Summary – South Korean intelligence reports say Russia has provided North Korea with two to three nuclear-submarine propulsion modules—reportedly lifted from...