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Key Points and Summary – In a little-known 1981 NATO exercise, a quietly upgraded Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine slipped through the defenses of a...
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Key Points and Summary – In a little-known 1981 NATO exercise, a quietly upgraded Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine slipped through the defenses of a...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet have been pushed decades beyond their original 6,000-hour design life thanks...
Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, the Air Force’s new lightweight fighter, the F-16, almost made the jump to carrier decks. Under...
Article Summary – In 1984, a Soviet Victor-class submarine, K-314, unexpectedly surfaced at night directly in front of USS Kitty Hawk during exercises in...
Key Points and Summary – Post–Cold War cuts turned four Ohio-class boomers into fearsome SSGNs, each packing 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles in repurposed Trident...
Article Summary – The U.S. Navy’s SSN(X) is envisioned as the undersea “apex predator” of the 2040s, but shipyard bottlenecks and cost pressures have...
Article Summary – The A-12 Avenger II was the Navy’s bid to put a stealth strike jet on carrier decks after the F-117’s debut,...
Article Summary – This article explains how the U.S. Navy dragged its Iowa-class battleships into the missile age. -Facing a growing Soviet threat, the...
Article Summary – France’s Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the Navy’s lone aircraft carrier and first domestically built nuclear-powered flattop. -Commissioned in 2001, the...
Article Summary – The Midway-class aircraft carriers were conceived during World War II but entered service too late to see combat, emerging instead as...