Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
After 29 years out of service, Russia's nuclear-powered battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov has returned to its home port carrying the largest missile arsenal of any...
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After 29 years out of service, Russia's nuclear-powered battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov has returned to its home port carrying the largest missile arsenal of any...
The Soviet Oscar-class was built for one purpose: to destroy American aircraft carrier battle groups. A 24,000-ton, twin-reactor behemoth carrying 24 supersonic P-700 Granit...
All five of Britain's Astute-class nuclear attack submarines are sidelined in port at once, awaiting maintenance the Royal Navy lacks the dry docks and...
France's brand-new nuclear carrier broke a propeller mid-Atlantic in 2000 and limped home on one screw. The fix: vintage propellers pulled off the 1960s...
France's nuclear carrier took twelve years to build, lost her propeller in the Atlantic, and sailed six years on spares made for 1960s ships....
Summary and Key Points: The North American XB-70 Valkyrie was built to cruise at three times the speed of sound — so high and...
One of the greatest joys of my life was back in 2004 when I literally got within 100 feet of USS Connecticut, an actual...
Britain’s Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine is so quiet that sonar operators have mistaken its acoustic signature for a baby dolphin or ambient ocean background...
The Soviet Union built the K-19 nuclear submarine to compete with U.S. nuclear submarine programs. Captain Nikolai Zateyev believed the K-19 was unfit for...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy planned to build 29 Seawolf-class attack submarines—the most lethal undersea predators ever designed—but ended up with just...