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 – USS America, a conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, served from Vietnam through Desert Storm before retiring in 1996. -In...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The SR-71 was retired in 1990 on cost and survivability grounds despite unmatched speed, altitude, and responsiveness. -Congress forced...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Su-75 Checkmate is being crowded out by war economics and operational reality. -Russia’s defense industry is focused on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Desert Storm began with overwhelming coalition airpower—but not without loss. Guided by ground controllers, Iraqi pilot Zuhair Dawoud in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – RIMPAC 2024’s SINKEX of ex-USS Tarawa marked LRASM’s coming-of-age: a carrier-launched, stealth cruise missile autonomously found and struck a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This essay profiles five battleship classes—Iowa, Yamato, South Dakota, King George V, and North Carolina—as strategic answers to the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-35 is the planet’s best fighter precisely because it is more than a fighter: a stealthy, fused-sensor “quarterback”...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Ukraine spotlighted Russia’s naval weaknesses—aging surface combatants, a crippled carrier, constrained access—but also its likely path forward. -Instead of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Boeing’s “Bird of Prey”—often tagged YF-118G—was a 1990s stealth technology demonstrator that traded speed and weapons for learning. -Built...