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...
Key Points and Summary – The Navy railgun advanced fast—and then vanished. The reasons were practical: barrels cracked from brutal heat and electromagnetic stress...
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,...
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...
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...