Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In a 2005 U.S. Navy war game, a Swedish Stirling AIP-powered Gotland-class submarine slipped past the screen and “sank” a U.S. aircraft carrier. Twenty-one...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The USS Florida Ohio-class guided-missile submarine (SSGN) recently completed a 727-day deployment covering approximately 60,000 nautical miles. The USS Florida Ohio-class SSGN deployed across...
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
A Greek Hellenic Navy Type-214 submarine surfaced in the Aegean Sea after becoming entangled — or potentially nearly entangled — with the nets of...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy nicknamed the Russian Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine the “Black Hole” because sound around the Kilo-class submarine tends to “disappear.” The Russian...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The Pentagon publicly revealed the location of an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) at Gibraltar on May 11 — only hours after President Donald...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia has not built any operational Amur-class diesel-electric attack submarines. The Russian Amur-class submarine has been derided as existing “only on paper.” Russia’s Rubin...