Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Japan’s unrealized “Super Yamato” (Design A-150) was Tokyo’s bid to dominate WWII at sea before U.S. industry fully mobilized....
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Commissioned in August 1943, the Essex-class carrier USS Intrepid fought across the Pacific, surviving a torpedo at Truk and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were built as fast battleships to escort carrier task forces and overmatch...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Conceived at the end of World War II and commissioned just after it, the Midway-class—Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – America’s Casablanca-class escort aircraft carriers were WWII’s most numerous flattops: 55 “Jeep” carriers mass-produced by Henry Kaiser’s yards to...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The M48 Patton was America’s first truly post-WWII medium tank, built to solve Korea-era gaps in night fighting, mobility,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – HMS Vanguard was conceived in 1941 as a fast capital ship that could keep up with carriers and fight...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – USS Iowa (BB-61) was built as a fast battleship to screen aircraft carriers, duel surface threats, and bombard ashore....
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Why the Yamato-Class Battleships Were Obsolete The Moment They Sailed No warships have captured the paradoxical blend of immense power and tragic futility quite...