Key Points and Summary – USS Kentucky (BB-66) was conceived first as a Montana-class super-battleship and then reordered as an Iowa-class fast battleship, meant...
Key Points and Summary – Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is still trying to slow-roll the Navy’s sixth-generation F/A-XX program, arguing the U.S. industrial base...
Key Points and Summary – China’s new YKJ-1000 “cement-coated” missile could upend the balance between cheap offense and costly defense at sea for the...
Key Points and Summary – In October 2003, the nuclear-powered USS Hartford ran aground leaving La Maddalena, causing roughly $9 million in damage to...
Key Points and Summary – The 2020 fire that destroyed USS Bonhomme Richard exposed a chain of preventable failures: disabled suppression systems, missing hoses,...