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Key Points and Summary – Post–Cold War cuts turned four Ohio-class boomers into fearsome SSGNs, each packing 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles in repurposed Trident...
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Key Points and Summary – Post–Cold War cuts turned four Ohio-class boomers into fearsome SSGNs, each packing 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles in repurposed Trident...
Article Summary – The U.S. Navy’s SSN(X) is envisioned as the undersea “apex predator” of the 2040s, but shipyard bottlenecks and cost pressures have...
Article Summary – The A-12 Avenger II was the Navy’s bid to put a stealth strike jet on carrier decks after the F-117’s debut,...
Article Summary – This article explains how the U.S. Navy dragged its Iowa-class battleships into the missile age. -Facing a growing Soviet threat, the...
Article Summary – France’s Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the Navy’s lone aircraft carrier and first domestically built nuclear-powered flattop. -Commissioned in 2001, the...
Article Summary – The Midway-class aircraft carriers were conceived during World War II but entered service too late to see combat, emerging instead as...
Article Summary – Born from Cold War fears of Soviet bombers, submarines, and missiles, USS Nimitz (CVN-68) became the template for the modern nuclear...
Article Summary – The Seawolf-class was conceived at the height of the Cold War to outclass new, ultra-quiet Soviet Akula and Sierra boats with...
Article Summary – USS Saratoga (CV-60) was the second Forrestal-class “supercarrier,” built to bring the Navy into the jet age with angled decks, steam...
Key Points and Summary – The Ford-class aircraft carriers sit at the center of a bitter debate about the future of U.S. sea power....