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Beijing calls its largest warship a destroyer. Washington calls it a cruiser. At 13,000 tons and 112 launch cells, the Type 055 is bigger...
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Beijing calls its largest warship a destroyer. Washington calls it a cruiser. At 13,000 tons and 112 launch cells, the Type 055 is bigger...
China is racing toward nine aircraft carriers by 2035, the fastest carrier buildup since World War II. But a carrier never fights alone —...
The US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding is being judged on whether it cools tensions in the Persian Gulf. Strategic-studies scholar Andrew Michta argues that's the...
The MQ-25 Stingray just cleared Milestone C, moving the world's first carrier-based autonomous aircraft toward the fleet. It isn't a fighter or a bomber...
Russia's T-14 Armata was hailed as the future of tank warfare. In Ukraine it's almost absent — too valuable to risk — while the...
For years the West dismissed China's fighters as second-tier. Then the J-10CE reportedly beat the Eurofighter Typhoon in all nine simulated engagements — and...
The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the most heavily armed surface warships America ever built — 122 missile cells each. Congress forced the Navy to keep...
After more than $12 billion and a string of failed tests, the US Army is finishing the first battery of Dark Eagle — America's...
On a spec sheet the USS Gerald R. Ford beats China's new Fujian aircraft carrier on nearly every number — bigger, nuclear, more aircraft,...
America and China agree the future of air combat is a stealth fighter directing a swarm of drones. They disagree on who commands it....