Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Independence (CV-62), the fourth Forrestal-class supercarrier, served from 1959–1998 across Cold War flashpoints and the post-Cold War Gulf....
Hi, what are you looking for?
National Security Journal
All posts tagged "Aircraft Carrier"
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – At the Cold War’s end, the Soviet Union laid down Ulyanovsk (Project 1143.7), its first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier aimed...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov’s limbo makes a strategic point: Russia doesn’t need carriers. Its Arctic and Pacific “bastion” missions—sea denial, deterrence,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Nimitz (CVN-68), first of the Nimitz-class supercarriers, is concluding a 50-year career that spanned the Cold War, Eagle...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is a Nimitz-class, nuclear-powered carrier homeported in San Diego and flagship of Carrier Strike Group...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) is a Nimitz-class supercarrier commissioned in 1995 and now undergoing a Refueling and Complex...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – China’s Type 003 Fujian carrier has completed electromagnetic catapult and arrested-landing trials with J-35 stealth fighters, J-15T strike jets,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – At $13.3B, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is the Navy’s largest, most advanced carrier, fielding EMALS, Advanced Arresting Gear,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – China’s PLAN announced its first at-sea EM catapult launches and arrested landings from the Type 003 carrier Fujian, using...