Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Synopsis: The U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray stealth drone tanker has successfully completed key low-speed taxi trials at MidAmerica Airport, marking a critical step toward...
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Synopsis: The U.S. Navy’s MQ-25 Stingray stealth drone tanker has successfully completed key low-speed taxi trials at MidAmerica Airport, marking a critical step toward...
Summary and Key Points – The USS Boise (SSN-764), a Los Angeles-class attack submarine, has become a symbol of the Navy’s maintenance crisis, having...
Synopsis: The U.S. Navy faces a critical decision regarding the 50-year-old USS Nimitz (CVN-68): retire the aging flagship or invest in a costly life...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Kentucky (BB-66) occupies a unique place in naval history as the “ghost” of the Iowa class—a 57,000-ton fast...
Synopsis: The U.S. Navy confirmed that Carrier Air Wing 8 executed a coordinated formation flight over supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford during an aerial...
Summary and Key Points: Seafarer abandonment is surging as shipowners cut ties with crews—skipping repatriation, withholding support, and failing to pay wages for months....
Summary and Key Points: Dr. Andrew Latham challenges the view that canceling the Trump-class battleship program after a single hull would be a procurement...
Summary and Key Points: The Littoral Combat Ship was pitched as a low-cost, high-speed, modular alternative to sending billion-dollar destroyers into coastal waters, but...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Preble has demonstrated a new layer of close-in defense by using the HELIOS shipboard laser to neutralize four...
Summary and Key Points: Wasn’t the battleship supposed to be obsolete? Debate over the proposed Trump-class battleships centers on whether they would be operationally...