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The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is the most successful warship class in modern American history — and the lead ship, USS Nimitz herself, is currently...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy is set to announce the builder of its F/A-XX sixth-generation carrier fighter by August 2026, with Boeing and Northrop Grumman as...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Russia’s Project 23560 Lider-class destroyer was Moscow’s bid to rebuild a blue-water navy with one ship that did everything: a nuclear-powered surface combatant displacing...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The world’s most expensive warship came home Saturday. And as one retired U.S. Navy commanding officer told me yesterday: “No one knows when she...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy is retiring every single Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser by 2029 — and with them, more than 1,200 missile launch cells the surface...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
U.S. officials estimate China intends to operate nine aircraft carriers by 2035 — a tripling of its current three-ship fleet in just a decade....
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
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....