Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This piece explains how the Essex-class carriers became the backbone of U.S. naval airpower from World War II through...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary: Following a major $10 million dry dock refurbishment, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62)—the most decorated warship in U.S. Navy...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Alaska-class battlecruisers were conceived as “cruiser killers” to hunt German and Japanese heavy cruisers, splitting the difference between...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In May 1956, a Navy PR cruise off the East Coast turned disastrous when heavy fog and a radar...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Japan’s Design A-150 “Super Yamato” was meant to be the ultimate battleship: up to 70,000–90,000 tons, six 510 mm...
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 and Key Points – The M4 Sherman has long been branded a “bad” tank, doomed against German Panthers and Tigers. -In reality,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Wasp (CV-7) was not a bad carrier so much as a compromised one. Squeezed under the Washington Naval...
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...