Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Key Points and Synopsis: While the U.S. Navy’s “Silent Service” typically operates in classified secrecy, it occasionally surfaces its submarines to send powerful messages...
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Key Points and Synopsis: While the U.S. Navy’s “Silent Service” typically operates in classified secrecy, it occasionally surfaces its submarines to send powerful messages...
Key Points and Summary – The Department of Defense has accelerated the delivery of the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) to March 2027, following...
Key Points and Synopsis: The United States has seized the Russian-flagged oil tanker Marinera in the North Atlantic after a high-stakes, two-week pursuit, during...
Key Points and Summary: The USS Enterprise (CVN-65), known as “Big E,” was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and the longest warship ever...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s EA-18G Growler played a pivotal “enabler” role in the operation to capture Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro,...
Synopsis: On January 7, 2026, U.S. forces, supported by the UK, seized the Russian-flagged tanker Marinera in the North Atlantic following a pursuit that...
Key Points and Synopsis: In a 1981 NATO exercise, a Canadian Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine shocked the world by “sinking” the U.S. Navy supercarrier USS...
Synopsis: Despite the invention of autopilot in 1912 by Lawrence Sperry, U.S. Naval Aviators generally refuse to use it for landing on aircraft carriers....
Synopsis: The F-14 Super Tomcat 21 (ST21) was a proposed 1990s upgrade to modernize the U.S. Navy’s F-14 fleet with powerful F110-GE-429 engines, Mach...
Key Points and Synopsis: In 2026, the F/A-18 Super Hornet remains the U.S. Navy’s reliable workhorse, prioritizing multirole flexibility and high sortie rates over...