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Ranked: The Five Best Aircraft Carriers in World History Size matters here: the bigger the ship, the bigger the hangar and flight decks that accommodate the air wing. Here’s What You Need to Know: The finest aircraft carrier is one that's both well-suited to its missions and handled with skill and derring-do when and where it matters most. Anyone who's tried to compare one piece of kit—ships, aircraft, weaponry of various types—to another will testify to how hard this chore is. Ranking aircraft carriers is no exception. Consulting the pages of  Jane's Fighting Ships or  Combat Fle...

After more than twenty years of American submarine supremacy, a new challenger has arisen from the deep. Here's What You Need to Remember: The Virginia class is quieter and has a better sonar rig than its Russian opponent. In the world of submarine warfare, that’s an unbeatable combination. It can move and detect in ways that would give away  Severodvinsk. The United States Navy’s submarine force emerged from the Cold War as the undisputed masters of the undersea realm. The elite, all-nuclear submarine force watched as its Soviet submarine force rivals rusted away pierside, the newly f...

The International Navies issue is one of my favorites every year, perhaps because it reminds me of some of the  best moments of my Navy career—opportunities to exercise and operate with allied and partner navies. This month, we have 28 foreign navy chiefs writing for the International Commanders Respond section—the highest number ever. We asked them: “Given that every navy must deal with finite budgets and resources, how has your navy found the right balance between force size and force capability in terms of modern technology?” Here are their responses. While we have a dedicated mo...

Enterprise  sank, or helped sink, three IJN carriers and a cruiser at the Battle of Midway in 1942; suffered grave damage in the Solomons campaign, yet managed to send her air wing to help win the climatic Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; and went on to fight in such engagements as the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf, and Okinawa. That's the stuff of legend. Anyone who's tried to compare one piece of kit—ships, aircraft, weaponry of various types—to another will testify to how hard this chore is. Ranking aircraft carriers is no exception. Consulting the pages of  Jane's Fighting Ships or 

The most survivable arm of the nuclear triad is typically the sea-based one. Here's What You Need to Remember: Having three submarines in operation generally means at least one is at sea at any particular time, a necessity for a sea-based nuclear deterrent. The Dolphin class reportedly carries up to sixteen torpedoes and missiles; if the submarines’ primary task is nuclear deterrence, half of its weapons space might be allocated for carrying nukes. The result is that at any given time Tehran is likely in the nuclear crosshairs of an Israeli submarine. Israel’s submarine corps is a tiny...