Joe Buff has an idea: The two boomers may have been practicing sub-on-sub combat maneuvers, including the classic close-trail so well dramatized in "Hunt for Red October." Would two boomers ever fight in a real life war situation? Oh yes! It's public info that SSBN...
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Gitlin forwards me the following on the SSBN crash:To the tactical oceanographer, the Atlantic may be less large than it at first appears. It seems the British sub was heading.
Whoa.
I have never pictured Jack Aubrey as looking even vaguely like Charlton Heston, but apparently Patrick O'Brian did. I suppose that I might be more open minded about that possibility if I hadn't seen Master and Commander before reading the first Aubrey-Maturin novel; the film...
I can't recommend highly enough the BBC Radio program "The Human Button," which explores the human element of the British nuclear deterrent. The program interviews a number of former government.
Sometimes simple questions result in enormous projects. The question that Andrew Gordon tackles in Rules of the Game amounts to this: Why did the Grand Fleet fail to destroy the.
The United Kingdom is considering pulling out of the F-35 project:BRITAIN is considering pulling out of a £9 billion project with America to produce the new Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft, intended to fly off the Royal Navy’s forthcoming aircraft carriers.The move is part of...
Today marks the 250th birthday of Vice-Admiral Lord Horatio Nelson. It is also the third birthday (observed) of Lord Cat Nelson.A common infirmity is not the only connection between Vice.
Cernig:The head of the Missile Defense Agency, General Trey Obering, has previously justified the massive expense and foreign policy jeopardy of placing land-based anti-missile facilities in Eastern Europe on the.
Jeff Lewis has a good article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists on minimal vs. robust deterrence. The latter, advocated by folks like Albert Wohlstetter, asserts that nuclear deterrence is a delicate flower that will collapse if not nourished properly by thousands of warheads in...
In 1861, HMS Warrior set the state of the art in Line of Battle Ship, combining steam engines, advanced guns, and an iron hull, she was substantially superior to her.
Hilarity.Via Defense Statecraft.