Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Korean War pulled all four Iowa-class battleships—Missouri, New Jersey, Iowa, and Wisconsin—back into combat, where their 16-inch guns...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as the fifth Iowa-class battleship, laid down in late 1942 at Philadelphia. -By 1945...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Ukraine war is settling into a costly deadlock of drones, artillery, and infrastructure strikes—fertile ground for a Korea-style...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Launched too late for WWII, the Essex-class USS Princeton (CV-37) quickly earned distinction in Korea, flying hundreds of strike...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were built as fast battleships to escort carrier task forces and overmatch...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Conceived before Pearl Harbor and mass-produced during World War II, the Essex-class carriers gave the U.S. Navy a scalable,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The M48 Patton was America’s first truly post-WWII medium tank, built to solve Korea-era gaps in night fighting, mobility,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Iowa (BB-61) was built as a fast battleship to screen aircraft carriers, duel surface threats, and bombard ashore....
Ukraine War
Key Points and Summary – Amid the ongoing push for a peace deal, a controversial U.S. proposal to create a demilitarized zone (DMZ) between...