Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
In the early 2000s, I visited the USS Connecticut in dry dock while she was getting repairs, completely out of the water, and the...
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In the early 2000s, I visited the USS Connecticut in dry dock while she was getting repairs, completely out of the water, and the...
Key Points and Summary – United States Navy sailors face deployment cycles ranging from six to twelve months aboard surface combatants, submarines, and aircraft...
In addition to being the ocean’s most abundant and widely consumed tuna species, the Skipjack tuna (scientific name Katsuwonus pelamis) is also an efficient...
Northrop Grumman has released a new promotional video showing a notional design for the U.S. Navy’s secretive F/A-XX next-generation carrier fighter, just hours after...
The USS Massachusetts (BB-2) was so badly designed it would tilt sideways when its guns rotated. It killed its own crew in turret and...
The U.S. Navy is asking Congress for a massive $377.5 billion share of the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2027 budget request, a 24.3% increase over...
After years of speculation about when a decision would be announced and who would be the winner of the biggest fighter program in its...
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...
The conventional assumption, perhaps Hollywood-driven, is that nuclear submarine command is the most stressful leadership post in the Navy—nuclear reactors, confined spaces, ocean depths,...
Surface-fired hypersonic missiles, 600kw lasers, high-velocity rounds, and a 32 Megajoule Railgun are a few of the weapons systems expected to be built into...