Aerospace & Defense
USS West Virginia was the last completed Colorado-class battleship, armed with eight 16-inch guns and driven by turbo-electric propulsion. Sunk at Pearl Harbor, she...
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USS West Virginia was the last completed Colorado-class battleship, armed with eight 16-inch guns and driven by turbo-electric propulsion. Sunk at Pearl Harbor, she...
In the pre-dawn darkness of February 1, 1944, USS Indiana changed course without telling the rest of its formation and crossed USS Washington’s bow....
USS Indiana packed nine 16-inch guns and 130,000 shaft horsepower into a compact 680-foot hull. She earned nine World War II battle stars without...
USS Nevada’s $5.895 million contract produced a ten-gun battleship that survived Pearl Harbor, served 30 years and endured two atomic tests.
USS Idaho entered service in 1919 with twelve 14-inch guns and a 32,000-ton displacement. A major rebuild pushed her above 36,000 tons before she...
USS Pennsylvania entered service with twelve 14-inch guns, 34,000 horsepower and a completed cost near $15 million. The battleship served through two world wars,...
Built for low-altitude nuclear attack, the B-1B became a precision bomber, close-air-support platform and long-range anti-ship missile carrier. New external pylons, digital cockpit systems...
The military aircraft boneyard outside Tucson, officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, covers 2,600 acres and normally holds about 3,200 aircraft, 6,100...
USS Washington opened fire on the Japanese battleship Kirishima from 8,400 yards during the night of November 14–15, 1942, close enough for radar-directed 16-inch...
Britain spent £11,530,503 building HMS Vanguard, a figure that excluded her main guns, whose mountings had been built for the World War I battlecruisers...