Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
We all know that China’s primary geopolitical objective is to reunite Taiwan with the Mainland, either by peaceful means or by force. Part of...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Fire remains the most dangerous threat to a U.S. aircraft carrier — and the U.S. Navy’s newest, the USS Gerald R. Ford, just proved...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
During NATO Exercise JTFEX/TMDI 99 in 1999, the Dutch diesel-electric submarine HNLMS Walrus (S802) penetrated the layered defensive escort screen around the U.S. Navy’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Australia’s HMAS Waller, a Collins-class diesel-electric submarine, ‘notionally’ sank a U.S. Navy nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in a wargame simulation and several escorts at the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1985, the U.S. Navy’s nuclear-powered USS Enterprise aircraft carrier hit Bishop Rock at Cortes Bank — an underwater seamount roughly 100 miles west...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In 1995-96, the U.S. Navy sailed two aircraft carriers through the Taiwan Strait after Beijing tried to blockade Taipei. China stood down and was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
China’s J-15 Flying Shark, the backbone of the PLAN’s carrier air wing, traces its origin to a single T-10K-3 Su-33 prototype that Beijing bought...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Kitty Hawk-class — the USS Kitty Hawk, USS Constellation, and USS America — were America’s last great conventionally powered supercarriers. Each ship displaced...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Daryl Caudle told Congress this month that the Trump-class nuclear-powered guided-missile battleship will use the A1B nuclear reactor —...