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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Lockheed’s S-3 Viking — nicknamed “the Hoover” for its vacuum-like whine — spent 35 years as the U.S. Navy’s carrier-based...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The USS Parche was the most decorated submarine in U.S. Navy history, earning 10 Presidential Unit Citations for missions still...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The United States Navy originally planned a fleet of 29 Seawolf-class attack submarines, but only 3 were built before the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
33 Percent of America’s Rare Seawolf-Class ‘Apex Predator’ Nuclear Attack Submarines Will Be Retired
The USS Connecticut (SSN-22), one of only three Seawolf-class submarines ever built, struck an underwater mountain in the South China Sea in October 2021,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Japan’s Soryu-class diesel-electric attack submarine achieves something once considered impossible for non-nuclear boats: weeks of submerged operation without surfacing. The Kockums Stirling AIP engine,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Seven weeks after the Soviet Union dissolved, a Russian Sierra-class submarine designated K-276 Crab surfaced directly beneath the USS Baton...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarines were the fastest SSNs in the world when they debuted in 1959, capable of 33...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Out of all the submarine stories I have worked on in nearly twenty years of defense publishing and running various national security outlets or...