Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – America’s 175 Fletcher-class destroyers, launched beginning in 1942, became WWII’s definitive U.S. workhorse and later fought in Korea and...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Ford-class carriers replace Nimitz-class with major upgrades: twin A1B reactors delivering triple the electrical power; EMALS catapults and Advanced...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Sierra class (Projects 945 and 945A) wrapped a modern attack submarine around a titanium pressure hull to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as the fifth Iowa-class battleship, laid down in late 1942 at Philadelphia. -By 1945...
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Key Points and Summary – In the Navy’s 1970s hunt for a new fighter, Vought and General Dynamics proposed the Vought Model 1600—an F-16...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-15N “Sea Eagle” was McDonnell Douglas’s pitch to navalize the Eagle for carrier duty: folding wingtips, beefed-up gear...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – During the 1970s, the U.S. Navy studied a 50–60,000-ton CVV medium aircraft carrier to bolster aviation during Vietnam and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – F-22N “Sea Raptor”: The Carrier Fighter That Never Was -Long proposed as a carrier-borne derivative of the F-22, the...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – America’s Ford-class supercarriers trade higher upfront costs for lasting combat value. -USS Gerald R. Ford debuts EMALS catapults and...