Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed S-3 Viking was the only purpose-built, carrier-based, jet-powered submarine hunter the U.S. Navy ever flew. From 1974 to 2009, 188 of these...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – India’s purchase of a Russian aircraft carrier is detailed as a “monumental blunder.” -In 2004, India acquired the mothballed...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The B-21 Raider, the Air Force’s new sixth-generation stealth bomber, represents a significant evolution over its B-2 ancestor. In...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Army is skipping an incremental upgrade and jumping straight to the next-generation AbramsX tank under its M1E3...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Project 941 Typhoon-class SSBNs were purpose-built for nuclear war under Arctic ice: dual parallel pressure hulls for survivability,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Since the late 1980s, “SR-91 Aurora” has signified a rumored SR-71 successor: a stealthy, manned, hypersonic reconnaissance jet said...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Point – Japan reworked two “helicopter destroyers” into F-35B–capable flattops, threading the needle between Article 9 constraints and rising Chinese pressure. Here’s how...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The “battlecarrier” was a late-Cold-War plan to turn Iowa-class battleships into hybrid assault/strike ships, what could have amounted to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – F-15 vs. No Pilot MiG-23? – In July 1989, a Soviet MiG-23 took off from Poland, lost power on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Zumwalt-class flopped at its original mission: AGS guns needed million-dollar rounds, killing affordability and the shore-fire concept. -Rather...