Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The “battlecarrier” was a late-Cold-War plan to turn Iowa-class battleships into hybrid assault/strike ships, what could have amounted to...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Zumwalt-class flopped at its original mission: AGS guns needed million-dollar rounds, killing affordability and the shore-fire concept. -Rather...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS America, a conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, served from Vietnam through Desert Storm before retiring in 1996. -In...
The Treaty
Key Points and Summary – Beijing faces overlapping clocks on Taiwan: political pressure to show progress as growth and demography worsen; uneven military readiness...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – RIMPAC 2024’s SINKEX of ex-USS Tarawa marked LRASM’s coming-of-age: a carrier-launched, stealth cruise missile autonomously found and struck a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – This essay profiles five battleship classes—Iowa, Yamato, South Dakota, King George V, and North Carolina—as strategic answers to the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from brutal heat and electromagnetic stress...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Montana class was the U.S. Navy’s unbuilt “super battleship”: larger than Iowas, with twelve 16-inch guns, thicker armor,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant—both ballistic-missile submarines—accidentally collided while submerged on 3–4 February 2009. -Operating quietly on...