Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: In the waters off Florida in early 2015, a French nuclear attack submarine named Saphir — a 1970s-era Rubis-class boat,...
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Summary and Key Points: In the waters off Florida in early 2015, a French nuclear attack submarine named Saphir — a 1970s-era Rubis-class boat,...
Summary and Key Points: The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive warship ever built — a $13 billion supercarrier and the most...
The Gerald R. Ford-class carrier was supposed to be the evolutionary successor to the 50-year-old Nimitz, but instead of replacing one major system at...
After undergoing an extended period of maintenance, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) is officially back in business. The carrier had been undergoing a...
The USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, has been in overhaul for five years and counting. The original timeline called for...
What You Need to Know: The United States Navy lost dozens of F-14 Tomcat air-superiority fighters and an estimated 68 American aircrew over the...
Anytime I ever brought up Russia’s only aircraft carrier, the tragedy we call the Admiral Kuznetsov, U.S. Naval officials either laugh or cringe. As...
Why the Nimitz-Class Aircraft Carriers are So Special: There is a particular kind of warship that gets rarer the longer you study naval history....
The U.S. Navy is currently undertaking a significant review of its future aircraft carrier force, with particular focus on the next-generation Ford-class carriers. This...
Key Points and Summary – United States Navy and Marine Corps aviators consistently report higher stress levels landing high-performance fighter aircraft on aircraft carriers...