Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
Summary and Key Points: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, commissioned just after World War II, served as a crucial technological bridge between the older Essex-class...
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Summary and Key Points: The Midway-class aircraft carriers, commissioned just after World War II, served as a crucial technological bridge between the older Essex-class...
Summary and Key Points – Iran Crisis Deepens: President Donald Trump confirmed that a U.S. naval “armada,” led by the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier...
SSN(X), the Navy’s next-generation attack submarine, is positioned as a high-end successor to the Virginia-class, blending Seawolf-like speed and payload with Virginia acoustic performance...
A proposed “F-14 21 Super Tomcat” upgrade suggests the Navy could have kept the Tomcat’s speed, range, and two-seat advantage while modernizing it with...
Summary and Key Points: Congress has sharply increased 2026 funding for the Navy’s F/A-XX program, reviving momentum for a sixth-generation, carrier-launched fighter meant to...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy has effectively cancelled its next-generation DDG(X) destroyer program in favor of the massive “Trump-class” battleship (BBG(X)). -Displacing...
Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy has unveiled plans for the “Trump-class” battleship, a massive new warship second only in size to aircraft...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s warning that China could knock out U.S. aircraft carriers in “20 minutes” spotlights the hypersonic era: maneuvering weapons above Mach...
Congress is reviving the Navy’s F/A-XX carrier fighter by adding $897 million above the Pentagon’s fiscal 2026 request, signaling impatience with a strategy that...
Japan has begun sea trials of a 100-kilowatt-class laser weapon intended to counter drones by burning or disabling targets without missiles or gunfire. The...