Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Iowa-class battleships were the fastest and most powerful the U.S. Navy ever built. The four ships — Iowa, New...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Congress is putting the brakes on the U.S. Navy’s proposed Trump-class BBG(X) battleship, demanding proof that the program’s key technologies...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
HMS Vanguard was laid down in 1941 and commissioned on August 9, 1946 — after the war she was built for had already ended....
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Summary and Key Points: The USS Massachusetts (BB-2) was America’s first modern battleship and arguably its worst. Designed for coastal defense rather than blue-water...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Russia’s 1980s-era Admiral Nakhimov — a Kirov-class battlecruiser — is being modernized with up to 60 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missiles,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy is finalizing plans to buy the first Trump-class battleship in its 2027 budget — ensuring the new...
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 —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy’s new Trump-class BBG(X) nuclear-powered battleship will cost roughly $17 billion per hull and displace between 30,000 and 40,000 tons, making it...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s Project 23560 Lider-class destroyer was Moscow’s bid to rebuild a blue-water navy with one ship that did everything: a nuclear-powered surface combatant displacing...