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Nevada-Class Battleships Changed U.S. Warship Design With “All-Or-Nothing” Armor The Nevada-class battleships were a small, two-ship class, but had an outsized influence on subsequent...
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Nevada-Class Battleships Changed U.S. Warship Design With “All-Or-Nothing” Armor The Nevada-class battleships were a small, two-ship class, but had an outsized influence on subsequent...
F/A-XX, the Navy’s carrier-based sixth-generation fighter, is stuck in limbo despite years of analysis and at least $2.5 billion in RDT&E. With China expanding...
Iowa-class battleships combined heavy guns with modern missiles, including long-range Tomahawks, and proved their relevance again in the 1991 Gulf War. That legacy fuels...
China is positioning the twin-seat J-20S as more than an air-superiority stealth fighter, using the second cockpit to split workload and enable airborne command-and-control...
USS Texas, a 1914 New York-class battleship and one of the few preserved U.S. dreadnoughts, is nearing the end of a major restoration after...
A proposed Trump-class battleship is framed as a way to restore naval firepower amid shifting force structure pressures, but the central question is whether...
A wartime U.S.-UK shipbuilding rivalry invites a head-to-head comparison between America’s Iowa-class battleships and Britain’s HMS Vanguard. The Iowa-class brings a long combat record...
China’s A2/AD Has a Message for U.S. Carriers: DF-21D, DF-26, and the New YJ Missile Threat The great Prussian military sage Carl von Clausewitz...
Aircraft Carriers Aren’t Obsolete—They’re Evolving for China’s Missile Age Every generation, new weapons emerge that challenge the aircraft carrier, causing some to declare the...
The proposed Trump-class battleship concept depends heavily on a 32-megajoule electromagnetic railgun firing hypersonic tungsten projectiles, but railgun feasibility remains the central vulnerability. The...