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On the night of February 3, 2009, two nuclear ballistic missile submarines, Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant, each carrying 16 missiles and...
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On the night of February 3, 2009, two nuclear ballistic missile submarines, Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant, each carrying 16 missiles and...
At 10:52 a.m. on July 29, 1967, an electrical fault fired a Zuni rocket across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal...
“One mark of a great soldier is that he fights on his own terms or fights not at all.” The line credited to Sun...
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals,” Winston Churchill said, and...
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the...
“You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided,” Gen. George S. Patton said, and he lived it: raised...
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on — it is going on when you don’t have strength.” Attributed to Napoleon, tested at Trafalgar,...
During NATO’s Ocean Venture exercise in 1981, a 1960s-vintage Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine running silent on battery power slipped past the destroyers, submarines and...
Running silent on batteries and hiding in the ocean’s thermal layers, a 2,450-ton Dutch Walrus-class submarine slipped through a US Navy escort screen in...
Britain’s Challenger 3 gets a new turret, a Rheinmetall 120mm L55A1 smoothbore, and a 66-ton weight, down from 75, but the turret gearbox is...