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Russia’s Project 636.3 Varshavyanka, the Improved Kilo, was meant as a stopgap until the Lada class arrived. Instead NATO sonar operators nicknamed it the...
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Russia’s Project 636.3 Varshavyanka, the Improved Kilo, was meant as a stopgap until the Lada class arrived. Instead NATO sonar operators nicknamed it the...
USS Triton (SSRN-586) was built as a radar picket to run ahead of carrier groups, so the Navy gave it two Westinghouse S4G reactors,...
USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), the third and last Seawolf-class boat, was ordered in June 1996 largely to keep the shipyard’s welders employed between the...
The four Ohio-class SSGNs, each converted to carry 154 Tomahawks and 66 SEALs, start leaving the fleet with USS Georgia in July 2027 and...
The F-22 Raptor was built to sweep MiG-29s and Su-27s from the skies over Europe; the Soviet Union died first, and the wars that...
A former Air Force avionics technician says Russia’s Su-57 Felon would have been revolutionary in 1985. Brandon J. Weichert argues the critics are measuring...
Germany hadn’t spent 1.5 percent of GDP on defense since 1996. Then came the Zeitenwende: €100 billion for the Bundeswehr and a 4,800-strong brigade...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
Canada has the world's longest coastline and four secondhand Victoria-class subs designed in the 1980s. In 2023 only HMCS Windsor went to sea, for...
Six X-craft left Scotland on September 11, 1943, towed behind conventional submarines. One was lost with her crew on the way. One was scuttled...