Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Synopsis: The U.S. Navy’s SSN(X) program, designed to combine the stealth of the Virginia-class with the firepower of the Seawolf-class, is facing critical delays...
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Synopsis: The U.S. Navy’s SSN(X) program, designed to combine the stealth of the Virginia-class with the firepower of the Seawolf-class, is facing critical delays...
Synopsis: Russia’s post-Soviet arms exports to China were a pragmatic bargain: Moscow needed hard currency and industrial survival, while Beijing needed a rapid modernization...
America’s Columbia-class nuclear ballistic-missile submarines are absorbing delays and cost growth, with the lead boat now projected about 17 months late for a 2029...
Summary and Key Points: AUKUS plans to deliver Virginia-class submarines to Australia are portrayed as increasingly strained by U.S. production limits and the Navy’s...
Summary and Key Points: The S-3 Viking was a capable Cold War-era carrier-based submarine hunter, but it was ultimately retired because its survivability and...
A 2015 joint U.S.-French naval exercise is often cited as a reminder that aircraft carriers, while central to American sea power, are not invulnerable....
Summary and Key Points: During a NATO exercise in the 1980s, a Canadian Oberon-class diesel-electric submarine penetrated the defenses of the USS Dwight D....
Summary and Key Points: On April 7, 1989, the Soviet Union’s advanced titanium-hulled attack submarine K-278 Komsomolets (Mike-class) sank in the Norwegian Sea after...
The most immediate threat to U.S. undersea dominance is not foreign adversaries, but a domestic industrial crisis. A significant portion of the attack submarine...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program, critical to the nation’s nuclear deterrent, is facing significant schedule pressures and...