Russia’s Kirov-class battlecruisers — the largest surface combatants any navy has built since the World War II battleships, and the last nuclear-powered surface warships of […]
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The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive warship ever built, a $13 billion supercarrier and the most advanced on earth — and after being kept at war for eleven months until a fire and 600 failed toilets drove sailors from their bunks, she may now sit broken for up to two years
Summary and Key Points: The USS Gerald R. Ford is the most expensive warship ever built — a $13 billion supercarrier and the most advanced […]
The Quiet War: How The Seawolf-Class Became The Submarine The U.S. Navy Built When Cost Did Not Matter — And Why Its Acoustic Edge Still Holds
One of the greatest joys of my life was back in 2004 when I literally got within 100 feet of USS Connecticut, an actual Seawolf-class […]
Russia’s Akula-Class Nuclear Submarine Was Built to ‘Hunt’ the U.S. navy
The Akula-Class Submarine: Everything You Always Wanted to Know In the clandestine, high-stakes undersea chess match of the Cold War, the sudden appearance of a […]
The Navy’s F-14 Tomcat Fighter Was Built For Just 1 Mission
Summary and Key Points: The F-14 Tomcat, a legendary Cold War fighter made famous by Top Gun, was unmatched in power and performance—but plagued by […]