Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In 2015, the French Navy’s compact Rubis-class SSN Saphir reportedly penetrated USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (an aircraft carrier built for...
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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 Ford-class aircraft carrier delivered real deck-cycle and electrical gains—but at the worst possible strategic moment. -As China and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Su-57 Felon isn’t chiefly a design failure; it’s a resourcing failure. -By starving the program early, Moscow forfeited...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-111B set out to solve the Navy’s hardest problem: kill missile-armed bombers far from the carrier. -It brought...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Strip away the memes, and the Boeing X-32, or what would have been the F-32, appears to be a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This piece argues that five U.S. Navy aircraft carrier classes are one evolving idea. -Essex delivered mass, repairability, and...
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 – USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as the fifth Iowa-class battleship, laid down in late 1942 at Philadelphia. -By 1945...