Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – While China’s “carrier-killer” missiles dominate headlines, the U.S. Navy is fielding its own formidable array of offensive weapons to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Alfa-class submarine was a Cold War marvel, a “Golden Fish” designed for breathtaking speed. -Forged from a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Victor III-class submarine was a strategic shock to the U.S. Navy in the late 1970s. -While previous...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Nicknamed the “Black Hole” by the U.S. Navy for its extreme quietness, Russia’s Kilo-class submarine is one of history’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In a 2005 war game, a $100 million Swedish Gotland-class submarine repeatedly “sank” the $6 billion USS Ronald Reagan...
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...
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...