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Key Points and Summary – The Navy’s DDG(X) is being designed for a Pacific war defined by missiles, drones, and lasers. -Larger than today’s...
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Key Points and Summary – The Navy’s DDG(X) is being designed for a Pacific war defined by missiles, drones, and lasers. -Larger than today’s...
Key Points and Summary – Once mocked as an overpriced, late, and possibly obsolete mistake, the Ford-class is quietly becoming the centerpiece of America’s...
Key Points and Summary – The USS Gerald R. Ford took 12 years to build and became a symbol of cost overruns, schedule slips,...
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov was never a normal carrier. Born as a “heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser” to slip through the Montreux Convention,...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy’s South Dakota-class battleships never achieved the fame of the Iowa-class, but treaty-limited or not, they were...
Key Points and Summary – Australia’s Collins-class submarines may be few in number, but they’ve repeatedly punched far above their weight in high-end naval...
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 – The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet have been pushed decades beyond their original 6,000-hour design life thanks...
Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, the Air Force’s new lightweight fighter, the F-16, almost made the jump to carrier decks. Under...
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...