Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Despite long and distinguished service careers spanning from 1945 to 1992, the Midway-class aircraft carriers were considered a “less...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-14 Tomcat was the U.S. Navy’s premier fleet defense interceptor, designed to protect carriers from Soviet bombers. -Its...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The SR-71 Blackbird, the world’s fastest air-breathing manned aircraft, held its speed record not because of its airframe’s limits,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Nicknamed the “Black Hole” by the U.S. Navy for its extreme quietness, Russia’s Kilo-class submarine is one of history’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-4 Phantom II began as a U.S. Navy fleet defender and became the West’s do-everything jet: fighter, bomber,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – On a spring night in 1989, Soviet fighter pilot Aleksandr Zuyev staged one of the Cold War’s boldest defections—stealing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-117A Nighthawk was built for one job: slip past dense air defenses and put a smart bomb exactly...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was an ambitious 1960s joint U.S.-German project to build a “super tank” to counter Soviet armored forces....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 1968 loss of the U.S. nuclear submarine USS Scorpion with all 99 crew members remains one of the...