Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
After years of missing recruiting goals, sometimes as much as 25 percent for the Army, military recruiting across the board is up. In early...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points – The primary global security risk is not a classic “arms race spiral” with China, but rather a potential failure of Western...
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Key Points – The delivery of the US Navy’s second Ford-class aircraft carrier, USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79), is likely to be delayed beyond...
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Key Points – The US Navy’s decision in the 1990s to build only three Seawolf-class submarines, instead of the planned 29, is viewed as...
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Key Points – The legendary Iowa-class battleships of WWII were marvels of naval engineering, requiring over three million man-hours and 71,000 skilled workers per...
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Key Points – The U.S. Navy faces a looming missile-launch crisis as its powerful Ohio-class guided missile submarines (SSGNs)—each armed with 154 Tomahawk missiles—are...
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The Russian Kirov-class Battlecruisers were the largest and heaviest surface vessels, not aircraft carriers, on the sea during the Cold War. Russia initially planned...
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Key Points – The US Navy’s Ohio-class guided-missile submarine, USS Florida (SSGN-728), completed an extraordinary 727-day global deployment in July 2024, covering 60,000 nautical...
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Many questions have been raised about the extensive overhaul and reactor-refueling process (RCOH) of the USS George Washington (CVN 73), the sixth of the...