Key Points and Summary – With an announcement on the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX 6th-gen fighter imminent, an inside look reveals a surprising backstory. -The...
Key Points and Summary – Aircraft carrier strike groups, featuring the Nimitz and Ford-class, face a world thick with anti-ship missiles, proliferating sensors, and...
Key Points and Summary – The “battlecarrier” was a late-Cold-War plan to turn Iowa-class battleships into hybrid assault/strike ships, what could have amounted to...
Key Points and Summary – The Zumwalt-class flopped at its original mission: AGS guns needed million-dollar rounds, killing affordability and the shore-fire concept. -Rather...
Key Points and Summary – USS America, a conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class supercarrier, served from Vietnam through Desert Storm before retiring in 1996. -In...
Key Points and Summary – Beijing faces overlapping clocks on Taiwan: political pressure to show progress as growth and demography worsen; uneven military readiness...
Key Points and Summary – RIMPAC 2024’s SINKEX of ex-USS Tarawa marked LRASM’s coming-of-age: a carrier-launched, stealth cruise missile autonomously found and struck a...
Key Points and Summary – This essay profiles five battleship classes—Iowa, Yamato, South Dakota, King George V, and North Carolina—as strategic answers to the...