Caleb Larson is a multiformat journalist at a prominent media outlet based in Berlin, Germany. His work explores the intersection of conflict and society, with a particular focus on American foreign policy, European security, and the humanitarian impacts of war, as evidenced by his extensive reporting on the war in Ukraine. Caleb's insights and analyses have been featured in outlets such as CBC, Newsweek, and POLITICO Europe.
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Caleb Larson focuses on government and politics, with a significant emphasis on European affairs, particularly Germany, Ukraine, and Russia. His coverage includes military developments, international relations, and space exploration.
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By: Caleb Larson
Construction on the USS Enterprise began in 1958, and she needed eight nuclear reactors because that was what the technology of the time could deliver. Every Nimitz-class carrier that followed needed two. The Ford class also needs two, of a significantly newer and higher-output design. Nobody has ever dismantled a carrier with eight.
By: Caleb Larson
The F-15's radar had a speed gate set at 1,500 knots. SR-71 crews were cruising between 1,850 and 2,000. As pilot Richard Graham put it, for the Eagles they did not exist. The Air Force's newest air superiority fighter could not detect the Blackbird because the aircraft was moving faster than the radar had been built to accept.
By: Caleb Larson
China's third carrier, the Fujian, launches aircraft with an electromagnetic catapult, and the Type 004 is almost certain to retain the system. In the same period, President Trump has directed the US Navy to abandon electromagnetic catapults on the Gerald R. Ford class in favour of the steam catapults that have served carriers for decades.
By: Caleb Larson
The original concept considered arming the navalized F-22 Raptor or Sea Raptor with the AIM-152 long-range air-to-air missile, HARM anti-radiation missiles and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. The AIM-152 was itself cancelled. A fleet defense fighter that never flew was to be armed with a fleet defense missile that never entered service.
By: Caleb Larson
The FB-22 carried an estimated price of $30 billion. It would have competed for the same scarce tactical air and long-range strike money as the F-22 program, which ultimately ended at 187 operational aircraft, far below earlier projections. An aircraft that cannot be afforded alongside the fighter it derives from is not a cheap derivative.
By: Caleb Larson
Compared to the F/A-18F Super Hornet, the Growler is not a clean-sheet aircraft, but a missionized derivative of it.
By: Caleb Larson
Castelion, a Torrance, California startup, aims to keep its Blackbeard hypersonic missile below $500,000 per round. A Lockheed Martin PAC-3 MSE interceptor costs more than $4 million and takes over two years from initial build to delivery after testing. The US Navy has awarded Castelion nearly $90 million to push Blackbeard toward Early Operational Capability, including 50 prototype rounds.
By: Caleb Larson
During Exercise Valiant Shield, a B-2 Spirit launched an AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile at the decommissioned amphibious transport dock USS Juneau. It is likely the first publicly acknowledged LRASM launch from a B-2, and it matters because the Spirit is the only stealth aircraft able to carry the stealthy missile inside its internal bomb bays.
By: Caleb Larson
The F-16 was not selected by accident. It is a mature aircraft with a robust industrial base, highly maneuverable thanks to fly-by-wire controls, and supported by a deep pool of pilots, maintainers and depot capacity. Training an AI on the unpredictability of real flight rather than a simulation requires an aircraft you can afford to fly repeatedly. That is the F-16.
By: Caleb Larson
The INS Drakon, one of the newest submarines in the Israeli Navy , is also one of the most mysterious.
