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...
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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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In 2015, HMS Talent—a Trafalgar-class attack sub—struck floating ice while tracking Russian submarines, ripping a six-foot hole in her...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Britain’s two Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers promise global reach—but reliability issues, personnel shortages, and budget strain undermine their value....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – HMS Hood, the Royal Navy’s most famous battlecruiser, combined speed, heavy guns, and substantial armor—but entered WWII overdue for...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Britain has commissioned HMS Agamemnon, the sixth Astute-class attack submarine, in a Barrow-in-Furness ceremony attended by King Charles III—on...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Dassault’s Super Étendard is a compact, carrier-born strike fighter that punched far above its weight. -Its global coming-out was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 2009 Vanguard–Le Triomphant submarine bump showed how stealthy, passive, near-silent SSBNs can be invisible to each other—and how...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – More than 3,000 days alongside, HMS Daring has become a case study in how thin the Royal Navy is...