Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Essex-class, with 24 carriers built rapidly during WWII, represents an industrial feat that “shames” modern U.S. shipbuilding, which...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Pre-war air doctrine claimed massed, gun-bristling bombers could penetrate enemy airspace without escorts. Reality hit hard in 1943—daylight raids...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships cost roughly $100 million apiece to build in the 1940s—an eye-popping sum then, a bargain in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – A list details five of the worst battleships in history. -The Austro-Hungarian Tegetthoff-class makes the list for its paper-thin...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The USS Illinois (BB-65) was the fifth Iowa-class battleship, ordered in 1940, with its keel laid in late 1942....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s Lexington-class battlecruisers were authorized in 1916 as America’s answer to the global naval arms race. -These...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The sinking of the Japanese supercarrier Shinano by the U.S. submarine USS Archerfish in November 1944 remains the largest...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire long enough...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The underrated battleship USS Nevada (BB-36) had a remarkable and resilient career spanning two World Wars. -Its most famous...