Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – A recent GAO report warns of a “Hollow Military 2.0” crisis, revealing U.S. Navy crews are forced to “cannibalize”...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – A deep dive is taken into the tragic, but often forgotten, 1989 sinking of the K-278 Komsomolets, a unique,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Project 941 Typhoon-class SSBNs were purpose-built for nuclear war under Arctic ice: dual parallel pressure hulls for survivability,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Australia’s jump to AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines is rooted in the Collins class’s limits: an aging, conventional fleet with a...
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 – USS Guitarro sank at the pier in 1969 when an open sonar-dome manhole—left uncovered during transducer work—let floodwater drag...
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 – In 1992, USS Baton Rouge collided with Russia’s B-276 Kostroma in the Barents Sea during a covert patrol, a...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Parche began life as a Sturgeon-class fast attack sub, but an extensive late-’80s rebuild—adding a 100-foot section stuffed...