Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Britain’s Royal Navy has 13 warships left, down from 48 in 1990. The destroyer HMS Dragon broke down trying to reach the Eastern Mediterranean...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy’s three Midway-class aircraft carriers — USS Midway, USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, and USS Coral Sea — served continuously from 1945 through...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is concluding a 317-day deployment, marking the longest carrier deployment in the post-Vietnam era. The original plan was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy’s obsession with $13 billion nuclear-powered supercarriers has become a slow-motion strategic disaster that the aircraft carrier lobby refuses to admit. Modern...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
During World War II, the United States Navy fielded more than 100 aircraft carriers and built 24 Essex-class flat-tops in just three years between...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Ford-class represents a top-to-bottom redesign of the modern aircraft carrier. The A1B nuclear reactor delivers vastly more power than the A4W, electromagnetic catapults...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
According to recent news reports, the USS Gerald R. Ford is finally making its way back to the U.S. after a staggering 316-day-long deployment. ...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy is dangerously over-reliant on nuclear-powered aircraft carriers—massive engineering marvels that are too expensive to build, too costly to maintain, and too...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s Type 004 aircraft carrier will be the country’s first nuclear-powered supercarrier—a leap forward that will put Beijing in an exclusive club currently shared...