Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The Trump-class battleship (BBG(X)) represents a return to massive surface combatants designed for the U.S. Navy’s "Golden Fleet." The USS Defiant (BBG-1), a 35,000-ton...
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The Trump-class battleship (BBG(X)) represents a return to massive surface combatants designed for the U.S. Navy’s "Golden Fleet." The USS Defiant (BBG-1), a 35,000-ton...
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Brent M. Eastwood, a national security expert, evaluates the speculative role of the Montana-class super battleship in Operation Epic...
Summary and Key Points: This article examines General Atomics’ proposal to install a 32-megajoule electromagnetic railgun on the Trump-class guided-missile battleship. -Following the Surface...
Summary and Key Points: Harrison Kass, a national security journalist and former US Air Force pilot selectee, evaluates the survival of the aircraft carrier...
Summary and Key Points: This analysis by Brent M. Eastwood, PhD, a former U.S. Army Infantry officer, contrasts the current deployment of the USS...
The USS Missouri (BB-63) remains one of the most storied vessels in American naval history, but its service during the Korean War (1950–1953) is...
Synopsis: The Trump-class battleship BBG(X) is being pitched as a 21st-century command-and-control powerhouse, but analysts warn it may lack the military utility of the...
Summary and Key Points: The debate over the proposed Trump-class battleship echoes an earlier experiment: the Cold War reactivation of the Iowa-class. -Reactivated in...
Summary and Key Points: Trump’s BBG(X) ‘Trump-class’ guided-missile battleship is pitched as a huge command-and-control platform to replace retiring cruisers. -Renderings and Navy briefings...
Summary and Key Points: China’s anti-access/area-denial strategy is built to hold U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups at risk with long-range missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles,...