Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: When fire broke out aboard the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford last March, the Navy described it as a...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: It sounds invented, but it actually flew. In the 1930s, the U.S. Navy built two enormous airships — the Akron...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: On paper, it shouldn’t have stood a chance. France’s Rubis-class is among the smallest nuclear attack submarines ever built —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
When China rolled the DF-17 through Beijing, it was unveiling a weapon built for one purpose: to sink American carriers before they get close....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: China calls it the aircraft carrier killer. The DF-26B is built to do what most weapons can’t — track a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: In the 1970s, under CNO Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, the Navy studied the CVV — a smaller, conventionally powered carrier meant...
Dollars and Sense
Summary and Key Points: In 1983, the USS Enterprise — the world’s first nuclear-powered carrier — was returning from a Pacific deployment when it...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The USS America (CV-66), a Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, served the Navy for 30 years — through Vietnam, the 1986...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China may soon operate its J-35 stealth fighter from all three of its aircraft carriers — a significant upgrade to the PLA Navy. Only...