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Three 1980s upgrades gave each 57,500-ton Iowa-class battleship four Phalanx guns at 4,500 rounds a minute, 16 Harpoons reaching 150 nautical miles, and 32...
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Three 1980s upgrades gave each 57,500-ton Iowa-class battleship four Phalanx guns at 4,500 rounds a minute, 16 Harpoons reaching 150 nautical miles, and 32...
Yes, the Medal of Honor can be revoked. In 1916 a board of five generals reviewed all 2,625 awarded and struck 910: 864 handed...
The AWG-9 could track targets beyond 100 miles and the Tomcat carried six Phoenix missiles for six targets at Mach 2.34. The TF30 engines...
'I used to have to fly the engines; now I fly the airplane,' one Tomcat pilot told museum docent Orrin Messinger, and a Grumman...
The F-14D added the AN/APG-71 radar, LANTIRN, JTIDS, IRST and four JDAMs. The last Tomcat combat mission launched from USS Theodore Roosevelt on February...
Mike Relja, who kept NASA's SR-71A flying, told Aviation Week 'I just don't think you can get there from here.' The F-14 has been...
Block IV Virginias are built to carry America's special operators as well as missiles. A large integrated lockout chamber and the torpedo room's design...
When a helicopter's missile warning system detects a launch, CIRCM tracks the incoming missile and hits its seeker with a precision-pointed laser, which Army...
On March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit USS Franklin with two bombs about 50 miles from Japan. The Essex-class carrier, “Big Ben,”...
USS Nevada: She was the only American battleship to get underway on December 7 — a deck officer had ordered a second boiler lit...