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The Kilo-class submarine was designed in the 1970s, and Russia is still building it. That was not the plan. The follow-on Lada class, Project...
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The Kilo-class submarine was designed in the 1970s, and Russia is still building it. That was not the plan. The follow-on Lada class, Project...
The famous line about volunteering to die and enduring pain appears in Caesar’s Gallic War, though he places it in a Gallic leader’s speech....
The famous warning that money cannot create happiness is likely misattributed to Benjamin Franklin. Its idea still fits his life: Franklin built colonial America’s...
Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz believed leadership meant choosing capable people, giving them resources and resisting the urge to micromanage. From Midway to Guadalcanal...
The Houthis never sank an American warship. What they did instead was make the Navy pay to stay afloat. On one Red Sea deployment...
Eight months and 46,500 miles from home, USS Enterprise missed the dredged channel into Naval Air Station Alameda and drove onto a mud bar...
On November 2, 1985, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier struck Bishop Rock at Cortes Bank, about a hundred miles from San Diego. Contemporary...
The X-43D was designed to hold a scramjet at Mach 15 for thirty seconds, released from a Peacekeeper rocket at 200,000 feet. A 2004...
The final bill for the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier now runs to about $1.3 billion — $902 million to inactivate her, $111 million to...
The Navy meant to deactivate USS Nimitz in May 2026. She is staying until March 2027, at 51 years old, because the ship meant...