A 669-foot tank ship carrying orange juice collided with a smaller dredging ship in Newark Bay on Thursday, forcing the Coast Guard to close a waterway that leads to some of the largest shipping terminals on the East Coast for about five hours.
Perhaps Idea Exchange can affect the wave transforming the good old tank ship into a racing yacht adaptive to change in wind?
At that resolution, cars, roads, buildings, tanks, ships, jets and missiles can be distinguished.
It goes like this: no adversary in his right mind would try to match America's vast arsenal of tanks, ships or nuclear weapons.
Because tanks, ships and aircraft are so vulnerable, many of them are likely to be replaced, in part, by unmanned vehicles.
Since the Vietnam War, the American defense debate could be characterized as Republicans wanting more of the same (tanks, ships and planes) and Democrats wanting less.
They run their operation (named after their Afghan hound, Tucker, who died in 2006) out of a cramped garage, where saddles hang next to large stainless-steel aging tanks shipped from Italy.
In the defense industry, cracks will further widen between the heavy-metal advocates (those who favor tanks, ships and planes) and the electronica faction (who prefer precision munitions, remote sensors and robotics).
After being gripped for weeks in an antiwar mood, Europeans are now devouring all they can learn of the mechanics of war: troops, tanks, ships, aircraft and cruise missiles.
