Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from brutal heat and electromagnetic stress...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Montana class was the U.S. Navy’s unbuilt “super battleship”: larger than Iowas, with twelve 16-inch guns, thicker armor,...
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 – Admiral Kuznetsov was conceived as a “heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser” to slip through the Bosporus, fielding Su-33/MiG-29K jets from a...
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 – The Navy’s future air wing faces a capacity and range crunch: just 273 F-35Cs across a large carrier fleet,...
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...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In 2015, the French Navy’s compact Rubis-class SSN Saphir reportedly penetrated USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (an aircraft carrier built for...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – In January 2005, the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS San Francisco (SSN-711) slammed—at flank speed—into an uncharted seamount southeast...