Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: The Northrop P-61 Black Widow was the first U.S. aircraft designed around radar — a night fighter that could find...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Summary and Key Points: Congress is putting the brakes on the U.S. Navy’s proposed Trump-class BBG(X) battleship, demanding proof that the program’s key technologies...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Japan’s modified Izumo-class destroyers JS Kaga and JS Izumo are now operating as light aircraft carriers for the U.S.-built F-35B Lightning II — Tokyo’s...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 in the rocket-powered Bell X-1 Glamorous Glennis. Three years earlier, a British Supermarine Spitfire Mark XI...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy plans to spend $17 billion on the first Trump-class BBG(X) nuclear-powered guided-missile battleship, with the first three hulls estimated at $43...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis secretly delivered components of the atomic bomb “Little Boy” to the island of Tinian in July 1945...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Hitler personally ordered Germany to build the Panzerkampfwagen VIII Maus — a 188-ton super-heavy tank. The Maus is the heaviest fully enclosed armored fighting...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. built 49,324 M4 Sherman tanks between 1942 and 1945. The Sherman was the most-produced tank of World War II. Germany produced only...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 7, 1945, the Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamato — the largest battleship ever built, displacing nearly 72,000 long tons and armed with...