Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program, critical to the nation’s nuclear deterrent, is facing significant schedule pressures and...
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Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program, critical to the nation’s nuclear deterrent, is facing significant schedule pressures and...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program, identified as the Pentagon’s top acquisition priority, is reportedly 60% complete and...
Summary and Key Points: China’s expanding attack-submarine fleet is no longer just a numbers story; it is about capability, persistence, and how Beijing might...
Summary and Key Points: Researchers from the U.S. Navy, Electric Boat, and the University of Connecticut have developed a breakthrough method using “neutron beams”...
Summary and Key Points – The USS Florida (SSGN-728) recently completed a historic 727-day deployment, circumnavigating the globe and traveling 60,000 nautical miles while...
Key Points and Summary – Nuclear-powered submarines offer extraordinary endurance, but when refueling finally arrives, it is a painstaking industrial event—not a simple “fill-up.”...
Key Points and Summary – In February 2009, Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant—both ballistic-missile submarines—collided while submerged in the Atlantic during routine...
Key Points and Summary – America’s sea-based nuclear deterrent now hinges on the Columbia-class SSBN, a program projected at roughly $348 billion over its...
Key Points and Summary – America’s Ohio-class submarines are giants—and a big chunk of their punch is about to retire. -Four converted SSGNs that...
Key Takeaways – Britain’s Vanguard-class submarines are the silent backbone of the UK’s nuclear deterrent, built in the 1980s and 1990s to carry Trident...