Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In April 1989, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-278 Komsomolets caught fire in its engineering compartment during a routine patrol off Norway’s Bear Island. The...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Lockheed S-3 Viking was the only purpose-built, carrier-based, jet-powered submarine hunter the U.S. Navy ever flew. From 1974 to 2009, 188 of these...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
France has approved construction of the most ambitious warship in European history. Named France Libre after Charles de Gaulle’s wartime government-in-exile, the 78,000-ton nuclear-powered...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On 9 May, when Russian President Vladimir Putin was presiding over his annual Victory in WWII parade, the combined lack of any meaningful dignitaries,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Soviet Kiev-class carried P-500 Bazalt anti-ship cruise missiles. After the USSR’s collapse, Kyiv and Minsk were sold to China and converted into museum...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The United States sourced titanium for the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft from the Soviet Union via CIA front companies. The U.S. built the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Russian K-329 Belgorod nuclear-powered special operations submarine carries 6 Poseidon nuclear torpedoes. Each Russian Poseidon nuclear torpedo can carry up to a 100-megaton...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld testified to Congress that approximately $2.3 trillion in Pentagon receipts was “missing” from the defense budget the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Soviet Ulyanovsk was to be an approximately 80,000-ton nuclear-powered supercarrier. The Soviet Ulyanovsk was planned to be powered by 4 KN-3 nuclear reactors....