Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
With no aircraft carrier currently in CENTCOM, the Navy is weighing options as tensions rise with Iran—but the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Daryl...
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With no aircraft carrier currently in CENTCOM, the Navy is weighing options as tensions rise with Iran—but the Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Daryl...
The CVV “Aircraft Carrier (Medium)” emerged in the 1970s as the Navy tried to balance forward presence with tightening budgets and rising supercarrier costs....
Summary and Key Points: On July 19, 2024, during RIMPAC west of Hawaii, a U.S. Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet launched an AGM-158C Long-Range Anti-Ship...
Summary and Key Points: USS Abraham Lincoln is being redirected from the South China Sea to the Middle East to give President Trump additional...
Synopsis: Ford-class supercarriers pair nuclear endurance and high sustained speed with a less-discussed advantage: sortie generation. -The design goal is 160 sorties per day...
Summary and Key Points – A report says the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is shifting from the South China Sea to the...
Key Points and Summary – The Navy is weighing whether the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group can take on another major...
Synopsis and Key Points: China’s DF-27 is presented as an operational, conventionally armed intercontinental-range missile with an anti-ship variant designed to threaten U.S. aircraft...
Synopsis: In a 2005 Pacific war game, the Swedish diesel-electric submarine HSwMS Gotland shattered the myth of U.S. naval invincibility by repeatedly “sinking” the...
Key Points and Summary – The USS Abraham Lincoln “supercarrier” has been conducting live-fire drills and flight operations in the contested South China Sea...