Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
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...
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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,...
Summary and Key Points: France’s Charles de Gaulle is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in service outside the United States, and it remains the...
Summary and Key Points: After colliding with an uncharted seamount on October 2, 2021, USS Connecticut (SSN-22) suffered major bow damage that sidelined one...
Summary and Key Points: After Red Sea combat against Houthi missiles and drones, the U.S. Navy’s core lesson is that interceptor defense works—but it...
Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford Heads To The Middle East: Trump’s “Big Stick” Message To Iran Summary and Key Points: The Trump...
Summary and Key Points: A Taiwan contingency would put U.S. aircraft carriers in a far harsher environment than 1996. China’s A2/AD network—anti-ship ballistic missiles,...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Guitarro (SSN-665), a Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine, famously sank at its dock in May 1969 due to “culpable negligence”...
Summary and Key Points: U.S. Navy warship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) is scheduled for a $204.2 million modernization overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard starting...
Summary and Key Points: As of February 2026, the U.S. Navy faces a critical “submarine squeeze” as aging attack boats retire faster than Virginia-class...