Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Four Ohio-class SSGNs—each able to fire 154 Tomahawks—retire from 2026–2028, removing 616 missiles from the fleet. -The Navy’s answer:...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Grumman’s F9F-8 Cougar was the U.S. Navy’s swept-wing evolution of the Panther—a timely answer to Soviet and MiG-driven realities...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points: The U.S. Air Force has begun building the F-47, its sixth-generation NGAD fighter, with leaders pushing to have it flying by 2028....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – After the U-2 shootdown in 1960, the CIA needed a reconnaissance aircraft that could outrun missiles and hide from...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-14D Super Tomcat was the apex of America’s carrier fighters: a variable-sweep interceptor built to kill Soviet bombers...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The A-6 Intruder gave the Navy and Marines something they lacked in the early jet age: a long-range, all-weather...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Air Force says Boeing’s F-47—its sixth-gen NGAD fighter named partly as a nod to the 47th president—is already...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Born from embargo and urgency, Israel’s IAI Kfir (Lion Cub) married the Mirage airframe idea to an American J79...