Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
F-14 Pilots Were Forced to ‘Fly the Engine’ — Managing Throttle Inputs Carefully Instead of Fighting the Enemy The iconic F-14 Tomcat evolved into...
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F-14 Pilots Were Forced to ‘Fly the Engine’ — Managing Throttle Inputs Carefully Instead of Fighting the Enemy The iconic F-14 Tomcat evolved into...
The U.S. Military Could Force Ships Through the Strait of Hormuz — It Can’t Make Insurers, Shippers, or Energy Markets Believe It’s Safe On...
Iran Doesn’t Need to Win the War — It Just Needs to Keep the Strait of Hormuz Closed Long Enough for Americans to Turn...
$1.5 Trillion Is the Largest Defense Budget in History — It Doesn’t Matter If 99% Goes to Legacy Systems and Less Than 1% Goes...
Iran Has Threatened to Mine the Entire Persian Gulf — The Houthis Could Extend Mining to the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb Strait Just...
The F-47 NGAD Gets $5 Billion in the Defense Budget — The Navy’s F/A-XX Gets $140 Million With $72 Million Tied to an Uncertain...
The Spruance-Class Destroyer Was as Large as a WWII Cruiser — Congress Thought It Didn’t Look Scary Enough and Almost Killed the Program The...
From Venezuela to Iran to a Fire That Sent 200 Sailors for Smoke Treatment — The USS Gerald R. Ford Has Been Pushed Harder...
The F-22 Raptor, Zumwalt-Class Stealth Destroyer, and M10 Booker All Share Something In Common – Cancellations One of the cool things about being a...
The Ford Aircraft Carrier Borrowed Its Vacuum Sewage System From the Cruise Ship Industry — Cruise Ships Don’t Run 19-Hour Combat Operations When the...