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...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Grumman F-14 Tomcat may be a Hollywood icon, but its most impressive combat record belongs to Iran, not...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Drawing on a legacy that began with the Saab 32 Lansen, Sweden now offers a sovereign, exportable strike and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Northrop’s YF-17 “Cobra” lost the U.S. Air Force’s 1970s Lightweight Fighter competition to the YF-16, but it went on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Europe is racing to rearm but running into a familiar problem: how smaller states can afford to operate heavy,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Expert Reuben F. Johnson pairs a personal story of a lost naval aviator with the F-35’s combat debut as...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The YF-23 “Black Widow II” lost the 1991 Advanced Tactical Fighter fly-off to what became the F-22 Raptor and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In the late 1990s, Washington quietly bought Moldova’s surplus MiG-29s not to fly them, but to keep them out...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Operation Midnight Hammer was not just a showcase for the B-2 bomber; it was a proving ground for the...