Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy currently operates 11 aircraft carriers, but increasing threats from China, Iran, and regional instability argue strongly for...
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Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy currently operates 11 aircraft carriers, but increasing threats from China, Iran, and regional instability argue strongly for...
The US Navy Ford-class aircraft carrier program already has a long and fascinating history. Some would say this class of carriers has suffered from...
Summary and Key Points: The USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), the last conventionally powered Kitty Hawk-class aircraft carrier, will soon be scrapped, coinciding with...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Nimitz (CVN 68), commissioned in 1975, is on what may be its final deployment to the Indo-Pacific region....
Summary and Key Points: In 1984, a Soviet nuclear-powered submarine collided with the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk in the Sea of...
The British Royal Navy’s HMS Prince of Wales aircraft carrier is no stranger to controversy, given the problems that occurred after the Royal Navy...
Summary and Key Points: Russia dreams of building the nuclear-powered Shtorm aircraft carrier to rival America’s Nimitz-class carriers. -Designed by Krylovsky State Research Center,...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Nimitz, scheduled for retirement in 2026, could instead have its service life extended another 5 to 10 years,...
Summary and Key Points: China’s aircraft carrier ambitions began in the 1990s when Beijing secretly acquired an unfinished Ukrainian Kuznetsov-class carrier, initially intended by...
Summary and Key Points: Iranian-backed Houthi rebels launched drone and missile attacks against the USS Harry Truman aircraft carrier strike group, but US fighters...