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A proposed Trump-class battleship is framed as a way to restore naval firepower amid shifting force structure pressures, but the central question is whether...
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A proposed Trump-class battleship is framed as a way to restore naval firepower amid shifting force structure pressures, but the central question is whether...
A wartime U.S.-UK shipbuilding rivalry invites a head-to-head comparison between America’s Iowa-class battleships and Britain’s HMS Vanguard. The Iowa-class brings a long combat record...
China’s A2/AD Has a Message for U.S. Carriers: DF-21D, DF-26, and the New YJ Missile Threat The great Prussian military sage Carl von Clausewitz...
Aircraft Carriers Aren’t Obsolete—They’re Evolving for China’s Missile Age Every generation, new weapons emerge that challenge the aircraft carrier, causing some to declare the...
The proposed Trump-class battleship concept depends heavily on a 32-megajoule electromagnetic railgun firing hypersonic tungsten projectiles, but railgun feasibility remains the central vulnerability. The...
USS Abraham Lincoln Has A Message For Iran: A U.S. Supercarrier Heads To CENTCOM The United States Navy has ordered the nuclear-powered supercarrier USS...
President Trump’s proposed Trump-class battleship, known as BBG(X), is pitched as a high-end surface combatant with large missile launchers, hypersonic strike, directed-energy defenses, and...
USS Abraham Lincoln’s Carrier Strike Group is redeploying from the Indo-Pacific to the Middle East as unrest in Iran intensifies and CENTCOM expands regional...
The CVV “Aircraft Carrier (Medium)” emerged in the 1970s as the Navy tried to balance forward presence with tightening budgets and rising supercarrier costs....
The Montana-class battleships sit at the center of a lasting naval “what-if”: a larger successor to the Iowa class with heavier armor, a bigger...