Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Could Venezuela actually threaten the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group in the Caribbean? Expert Reuben F. Johnson’s...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary: The USS United States (CVA-58) was a radical, flush-deck supercarrier designed in the late 1940s to launch heavy nuclear bombers,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary: China has developed a sophisticated Anti-Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) strategy centered on “Carrier Killer” missiles to deny the U.S. Navy access...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Takeaways: The USS George Washington (CVN-73) has returned to Yokosuka, Japan, reclaiming its title as the U.S. Navy’s sole forward-deployed aircraft carrier. -The...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Ranger (CVA-61), a Forrestal-class carrier commissioned in 1957, became one of the U.S. Navy’s most important Cold War...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – HMS Prince of Wales, Britain’s newest Queen Elizabeth–class carrier, has become a case study in bad luck and bad...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Commissioned too late for World War II, the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt quickly became a workhorse of the early...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Repeated naval war games have revealed an uncomfortable truth: quiet diesel-electric submarines can routinely “sink” billion-dollar aircraft carriers. -From...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In 1963, a U.S. Navy KC-130F Hercules turned “impossible” into routine by operating from the deck of the supercarrier...