Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Every other navy gave up on the nuclear-powered surface warship. Russia kept one. After a refit lasting more than two decades and costing billions,...
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Every other navy gave up on the nuclear-powered surface warship. Russia kept one. After a refit lasting more than two decades and costing billions,...
Canada is just weeks from a decision that could become the most expensive procurement in its history: choosing the submarines that will guard its...
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...
The U.S. Navy needs 66 attack submarines. By 2030 it may have 46 — it's retiring them faster than its two overstretched shipyards can...
The United Kingdom’s Vanguard-class submarines are the Royal Navy’s persistent, continuous nuclear deterrent force at sea. A class of just four boats, one of...
The SSN(X) is supposed to be the deadliest attack submarine ever — Seawolf's firepower, Virginia's stealth, Columbia's endurance in one hull. It's also slipped...
America's four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines each do three things nothing else in the fleet can: carry 154 Tomahawks, insert 66 special operators from underwater,...
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...
A satellite pass over Bohai Shipyard in February caught something analysts didn't expect: China's first Type 095 attack submarine, launched without a word from...
One of the greatest joys of my life was back in 2004 when I literally got within 100 feet of USS Connecticut, an actual...