19FortyFive — Defense, National Security and Military Analysis

A bow view of the ships composing the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) battle group participating in the multinational Exercise RIMPAC '88. They are, front to back: the frigate USS COOK (FF-1083), the guided missile frigate USS MCCLUSKY (FFG-41), the destroyer USS JOHN YOUNG (DD-973) and the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS LONG BEACH (CGN-9).

Aerospace & Defense

USS Long Beach: 2 Nuclear Reactors, 80,000 Horsepower, Unlimited Range, and Stacked with Missiles. The US Navy Does Not Operate a Single Nuclear Cruiser Today.

Long Beach was built to escort the Navy's new nuclear carriers, which conventional escorts couldn't keep pace with on long deployments. Two C1W reactors...

Harrison Kass9 hours ago

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Oct. 29, 2019) USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) conducts high-speed turns in the Atlantic Ocean. Ford is at sea conducting sea trials following the in port portion of its 15 month post-shakedown availability. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Connor Loessin)

Aerospace & Defense

Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s Magnetic Bomb Elevators Were Built to Lift 24,000 Pounds and They Have to Work. 68 Times Did Not Work

The USS Gerald R. Ford was the first carrier in the world with electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear, and magnetic weapons elevators, and it...

Isaac Seitz9 hours ago

Aerospace & Defense

‘Problem After Problem’: The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt ‘Stealth’ Destroyers and Built Just Three. Their Guns Needed $1 Million Shells, and the Navy Couldn’t Afford to Fire Them.

Conventional Prompt Strike is a conventionally armed boost-glide hypersonic weapon built to hit heavily defended, high-value, or fleeting targets fast. It shares its Common...

Caleb Larson10 hours ago

Aerospace & Defense

‘Fly the Engine’: The F-14 Tomcat Engine Problems Came from the Fact It Was Using F-111 Engines and It Almost Crippled It

The TF30 wanted smooth, straight airflow, which it got on the F-111 but not on a fighter pulling hard turns at high angles of...

Harrison Kass10 hours ago

Aerospace & Defense

Iran Used a Old $1,500 Mine Designed in 1908 to Do $90 Million in Damage to a US Navy Warship and Nearly Sank Her

Cmdr. Paul Rinn's frigate was escorting reflagged Kuwaiti tankers when a lookout spotted mines in the water, and Rinn began backing out of the...

Steve Balestrieri11 hours ago

Aerospace & Defense

The Great US Marine Corps Reboot Has Arrived

The Embassy

Russia and NATO’s Gray Zone Actions Could Spark a War No One Wants

Aerospace & Defense

Russia’s Su-47 Berkut First Flew 29 Years Ago Today With Its Wings Swept Forward. Only One Was Ever Built.

Aerospace & Defense

‘Slow-Motion Defeat’: Iran Found the Weak Spot in U.S. Power, and It Wasn’t Aircraft Carriers or Fighter Jets. It Was the Bases.

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Why the Witkoff-Kushner Mission Failed: Washington Still Misreads the Stakes in Ukraine

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

Germany Is Becoming Ukraine’s Most Important Ally in Europe — and Poland Is Paying the Price

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

NATO’s Answer to the Pentagon’s Europe Review Already Exists: The Eastern Flank Deterrence Initiative

Dr. Andrew A. Michta: Geostrategy

The Eastern Flank Comes First: Inside NATO’s Post-Ankara Turn Toward Forward Defense and Industrial Muscle

Aerospace & Defense

Aerospace & Defense

The Last Battleship Ever Built Didn’t Sail for the US Navy: The Royal Navy’s HMS Vanguard Was 51,000-Tons, Could Hit 30 Knots and Never Fired a Shot In Battle

Aerospace & Defense

93 Years Back, US Army General George Patton’s Line About Weapons and Men Is Still the Most Famous Quote in All of Armed Forces History

Aerospace & Defense

‘It Flew Less than An Hour’: Russia’s MiG-1.44 Stealth Fighter Tried to Be the Mach 2 Fighter the F-22 Raptor Was Destined to Be and Never Had a Chance

Aerospace & Defense

A Canadian Oberon-Class Diesel Submarine Built in the 1960s Worth About $80,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group. The $5,500,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Was ‘Sunk’.

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‘Effectively Closed’: The Strait of Hormuz Oil and Gas Crisis Is Going from Bad to Even Worse

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21 Years Ago, Apple Founder Steve Jobs Advice on Time and ‘Living Someone Else’s Life’ Is the Truth Serum That Still Shapes Our World

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“Money Never Made a Man Happy Yet, Nor Will It. The More a Man Has, the More He Wants.” Benjamin Franklin Was the 8th of 17 Children, Got 2 Years of Schooling Because His Family Could Not Afford More, and His Face Is on the $100 Bill.

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Iran’s Economy Is Buckling. That Is Not the Same as Iran Being Ready to Sign a Deal

The Embassy

The Embassy

Putin’s Giant Gamble: Another Ukraine War Mobilization Is Filled with Unknown Risks and An Angry Russia Simmering

The Embassy

‘Pivotal Meeting’: Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Donald Trump Will Meet Today. Here’s What’s on the Agenda to Try and End the Ukraine War

The Embassy

The Race to Succeed Putin Has Begun

The Embassy

Putin Is Using Russia’s Election to Recruit for the War in Ukraine

Hermit Kingdom

Hermit Kingdom

Donald Trump Needs to Bring Concessions if He Wants a Deal with North Korea

Hermit Kingdom

What the Iran War Proved About America’s Nuclear Weapons Threat to North Korea

Hermit Kingdom

The North Korea Deal Donald Trump Should Actually Want

Hermit Kingdom

North Korea’s Fingerprints Are All Over Iran’s War Against America

Aerospace & Defense

USS Long Beach: 2 Nuclear Reactors, 80,000 Horsepower, Unlimited Range, and Stacked with Missiles. The US Navy Does Not Operate a Single Nuclear Cruiser Today.

Aerospace & Defense

Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s Magnetic Bomb Elevators Were Built to Lift 24,000 Pounds and They Have to Work. 68 Times Did Not Work

Aerospace & Defense

‘Problem After Problem’: The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt ‘Stealth’ Destroyers and Built Just Three. Their Guns Needed $1 Million Shells, and the Navy Couldn’t Afford to Fire Them.

Aerospace & Defense

‘Fly the Engine’: The F-14 Tomcat Engine Problems Came from the Fact It Was Using F-111 Engines and It Almost Crippled It

Aerospace & Defense

Iran Used a Old $1,500 Mine Designed in 1908 to Do $90 Million in Damage to a US Navy Warship and Nearly Sank Her

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Aerospace & Defense

‘She Broke Free’: The CIA Used a Cover Story to Recover a Chunk of a Russian Ballistic Submarine Armed with Nuclear Warheads But Part of the Sub Slid Back Below the Waves

Aerospace & Defense

Boeing Spent $67,000,000 of Its Own Money Building YF-118G Bird of Prey Stealth Aircraft. It Flew 38 Times on Landing Gear From a Beech King Air and an Ejection Seat From a Harrier.

Aerospace & Defense

China’s J-20 And J-35A Stealth Fighters Don’t Have To Beat US Military F-22 Raptors And F-35s. Beijing Is Building Enough That They Don’t Need To

Aerospace & Defense

$850,000,000 Australian Submarine ‘Sank’ $5,500,000,000 US Navy Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carrier By Evading US, Japanese, Canadian, Chilean, Korean, and British Forces — 6 Navies — and Photographed the Supercarrier

Aerospace & Defense

Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird’s Pratt & Whitney J58 Engines Ran at Full Afterburner for Hours at a Time With Exhaust Temperatures Near 3,400 Degrees. At Mach 3.2 Cruise, Roughly 80 Percent of the Thrust Came From the Inlet, Not the Engine.