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Key Points and Summary – This piece explores whether Donald Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleships make more sense as high-end battlefield sensors than as traditional...
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Key Points and Summary – This piece explores whether Donald Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleships make more sense as high-end battlefield sensors than as traditional...
Key Points and Summary – The F-22 Raptor is widely regarded as the world’s premier air-superiority fighter, yet the U.S. will never build more...
Key Points and Summary – Turkey’s failed 2016 “coup” became the pretext for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to remake the Turkish military and crush...
Key Points and Summary – The Iowa-class battleships were the greatest gun platforms ever to sail, but on paper their planned successors—the Montana-class—were even...
Key Points and Summary: The YF-118G Was the Cheap Stealth Fighter -The YF-118G “Bird of Prey” was never meant to win dogfights or headline...
Key Points and Summary: F-47 NGAD Coming to Europe if FCAS Does Not Occur? -European ambitions for a homegrown sixth-generation fighter are faltering. The...
Key Points and Summary – The canceled A-12 Avenger II was supposed to give the U.S. Navy something it has never fully replaced: a...
Key Points and Summary – The SR-72 “Son of Blackbird” is rumored to be America’s first hypersonic aircraft. This Mach 6 platform could reach...
Key Points and Summary – Benjamin Franklin is remembered as a founding father, inventor, and diplomat—but he also briefly served as a wartime commander....
Key Points and Summary – Russia’s Black Sea Fleet just absorbed another serious blow beneath the surface. A Project 636.3 Kilo-class submarine—believed to be...