Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-16 Fighting Falcon—“Viper” to its crews—started as a nimble, low-cost day fighter and became the backbone of Western...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-4 Phantom II began as a U.S. Navy fleet defender and became the West’s do-everything jet: fighter, bomber,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – On a spring night in 1989, Soviet fighter pilot Aleksandr Zuyev staged one of the Cold War’s boldest defections—stealing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire long enough...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-117A Nighthawk was built for one job: slip past dense air defenses and put a smart bomb exactly...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Tu-160 “White Swan” is a Cold War giant reborn: a Mach-2, variable-sweep-wing bomber built to sling long-range cruise...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy faces a plain arithmetic problem under the waves: we’re decommissioning Los Angeles-class attack submarines faster than...
Dollars and Sense
Key Points and Summary – The United States still flies the world’s most experienced bomber force—but it’s a museum of eras. -The stealthy B-2,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor remains the world’s premier air-to-air fighter, but its biggest flaw isn’t in the airframe—it’s in the...