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Key Points and Summary: In a stunning 1999 exercise, the Dutch diesel-electric submarine HNLMS Walrus penetrated a U.S. carrier strike group’s defenses and simulated...
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Key Points and Summary: In a stunning 1999 exercise, the Dutch diesel-electric submarine HNLMS Walrus penetrated a U.S. carrier strike group’s defenses and simulated...
Key Points and Summary: The 1963 loss of the USS Thresher (SSN-593) remains the deadliest submarine disaster in history, but it birthed the safety...
Key Points and Summary – The XB-70 Valkyrie was the U.S. Air Force’s audacious answer to Soviet air defenses: a six-engine, Mach 3, 70,000-foot...
Key Points and Summary – In 1969, the brand-new nuclear attack submarine USS Guitarro famously “sank” pierside at Mare Island after a stunning series...
Key Points and Summary – On the opening night of Operation Desert Storm, a supposedly outdated Iraqi MiG-25 Foxbat scored one of the Gulf...
Key Points and Summary – In a little-known 1981 NATO exercise, a quietly upgraded Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine slipped through the defenses of a...
Key Points and Summary – Sweden may have joined NATO only in 2024, but during the Cold War it quietly designed its own nuclear...
Article Summary – In 1984, a Soviet Victor-class submarine, K-314, unexpectedly surfaced at night directly in front of USS Kitty Hawk during exercises in...
Key Points and Summary – The MBT-70 was a bold U.S.–West German effort in the 1960s to build a revolutionary main battle tank with...
Article Summary – The Soviet Alfa-class was a radical answer to a Cold War problem: sprint through NATO’s GIUK chokepoint, hunt U.S. carriers, and...