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In 1949 the Navy laid the keel of USS United States, a 65,000-ton supercarrier. Five days later Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled it in...
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In 1949 the Navy laid the keel of USS United States, a 65,000-ton supercarrier. Five days later Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled it in...
The F-35 vs. Gripen debate keeps coming back in Canada, and some suggest the Royal Canadian Air Force fly both. Retired Lieutenant-General Alain Pelletier,...
On October 25, 1944, off Samar, six US escort carriers, three destroyers, and four destroyer escorts of Taffy 3 ran into four Japanese battleships,...
The battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) sat in drydock at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, took one 500-pound bomb, and was seaworthy again by...
The Navy’s newest carrier class and its newest fighter did not fit. As built, USS Gerald R. Ford’s jet blast deflectors could not take...
Seventeen officers, about 100 enlisted sailors and Marines, and a 2026 Maneuvers Manual that sorts 105 stunts into High, Low and Flat Shows: that’s...
Ordered under the Two-Ocean Navy Act of July 1940, the five Montana-class battleships, Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana, would have been 921...
Twenty-four Essex-class aircraft carriers were completed, the most numerous capital-ship class of the 20th century, and not one was lost to enemy action, though...
“All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence...
USS Illinois (BB-65), the fifth Iowa-class battleship, was laid down at Philadelphia on December 6, 1942, and would have carried nine 16-inch guns throwing...