Guns & Gear
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China and the US Agree to Set up a New AI Safety Channel, and to Keep Talking on Trade, Military
China and the U.S. agreed to set up a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis…
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Where Things Stand After Iran’s New Pitch for a Deal to Open the Strait of Hormuz
It’s been a busy week for Iranian diplomacy that may have come to nothing. Iran’s president and foreign minister visited…
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The Navy’s shipyard overhaul could take 50 years, cost $200 billion
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Catholic Bishops to SCOTUS: Don’t Let “Common Use” Control Gun Laws
The video argues that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court’s consolidated assault-weapon-ban…
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Aircraft Carrier USS Gerald R. Ford’s Magnetic Bomb Elevators Were Built to Lift 24,000 Pounds and They Have to Work. 68 Times Did Not Work
Summary and Key Points: On Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, the weapons elevators are hydraulically and cable-driven. Ford’s were redesigned around magnets…
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A Canadian Oberon-Class Diesel Submarine Built in the 1960s Worth About $80,000,000 Slipped Past an Entire US Navy Carrier Group. The $5,500,000,000 Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Was ‘Sunk’.
Summary and Key Points: A 1981 war game became a 1982 fight over the future of the aircraft carrier. The…
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USS Long Beach: 2 Nuclear Reactors, 80,000 Horsepower, Unlimited Range, and Stacked with Missiles. The US Navy Does Not Operate a Single Nuclear Cruiser Today.
Summary and Key Points: USS Long Beach proved a nuclear-powered cruiser could work, and that turned out not to be…
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‘Problem After Problem’: The US Navy Planned 32 Zumwalt ‘Stealth’ Destroyers and Built Just Three. Their Guns Needed $1 Million Shells, and the Navy Couldn’t Afford to Fire Them.
Summary and Key Points: The Zumwalt-class destroyer was supposed to be a 32-ship fleet that would park off hostile coastlines…
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Iran Used a Old $1,500 Mine Designed in 1908 to Do $90 Million in Damage to a US Navy Warship and Nearly Sank Her
Summary and Key Points: The third ship to carry Coxswain Samuel B. Roberts’ name nearly went down as the first…
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This Photo Could Have Changed the US Air Force Forever: Meet the YF-23, and It Could Have ‘Replaced’ the F-22 Raptor
Summary and Key Points: More than three decades after the Air Force picked Lockheed’s YF-22 over Northrop’s YF-23, aviation fans…
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