Destroying things cheaply, risk-free has been a hallmark of U.S. military policy since the 1990s.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Tomahawk is the backbone of the U.S. missile program. But that doesn t mean it s the only one in America s arsenal.
For the past three decades, America’s signature weapon of war has been the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, or TLAM. The TLAM has helped bust down the doors of air-defense networks from Iraq to Libya, and has become a favorite tool of political influence for several presidents.
But what if the TLAM had never existed, or at least not in the form that we have grown accustomed to? What if the United States had given up the TLAM in arms control negotiations with the USSR?
Rods from God : The Strange Super Space Weapon that Wasn t
Pointed rods, around twenty or thirty feet long and several feet in diameter, would have been sent into space via rocket and housed on satellites, where they would then be dropped onto hardened targets like underground bunkers.
Here s What You Need To Remember: One beneficial side effect of the weapon - and similar kinetic weapons - was that there would not be any explosive ordinance left over to cause problems later.
Normally bombers drop explosive ordnance onto targets: conventional or nuclear. These two payloads, as detailed below, however, were neither though that didn’t make them any less destructive.
Germany Doesn t Want the F-35 Stealth Fighter
The Bundestag made the announcement last week and comes as good news for the European multinational Airbus, which had affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The decision to purchase Eurofighter Typhoons and Super Hornets instead is an indication of Germany s desire to preserve air manufacturing within Europe.
Germany’s Luftwaffe (Air Force) won’t be flying the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. The Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, has gone another direction and approved the acquisition of thirty-eight Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jets from Airbus in a deal worth a reported 5.4 billion euros. The aircraft will be the Tranche-3 variants and will replace the in-service Tranche-1 variant of the Typhoon.
While many nations, including
the United States, have ceased using flamethrowers, Moscow has doubled down with its efforts to utilize fire on the modern battlefield. Rather than the backpack-and-nozzle systems that were employed with infantry throughout both World Wars, Russia developed its TOS-1A Solntsepek ( Scorching Sun ), a multiple rocket launcher platform mounted on a T-72 tank chassis to launch thermobaric rockets.
The latest TOS-2 Tosochka heavy flamethrowers are now currently undergoing trial tests, the Russian military announced last Friday according to Tass. Heavy flamethrower TOS-2 is one of the newest weapons with the RCBD [Radiological, Chemical and Biological Defense] troops, Chief of Russia s Chemical, Biological and Radiation Protection Forces Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov said in an interview with the Russian Defense Ministry s Krasnaya Zvezda newspaper. The pilot batch of the weapons at the issue was delivered to the military this year and it is curren
It was from
Olympia’s bridge that Dewey made his famous command to the ship’s captain, “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley.”
Here s What You Need To Remember: The ship was placed into reserve in 1922, but never again used. In 1957, it became a museum ship.
The oldest steel warship afloat has survived wars, economic downturns and even the harsh passage of time, but there was one battle that the USS
Olympia (C-6), flagship of the American Asiatic Fleet during the Spanish-American War (1898), almost was unable to win. The future of the ship remained very much in jeopardy for several years due to the rising costs of maintaining the protected cruiser.