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The M113 was built by FMC, a farm machinery company, from an aluminum alloy light enough to drop by parachute and tough enough to...
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The M113 was built by FMC, a farm machinery company, from an aluminum alloy light enough to drop by parachute and tough enough to...
In 1963, 18 years after fighting each other, the US and Germany agreed to build one main battle tank for NATO. Then they fought...
More than 40 navies run some 330 diesel and air-independent submarines. About 150 boats run on nuclear power, 68 to 71 of them American....
The Soviets built the Project 971 Akula to find the US Navy’s Ohio-class missile submarines and sit on their tails. Moscow planned 25 boats,...
The K-278 Komsomolets was the only Mike-class submarine the Soviet Union ever built: a titanium double hull, a reactor that cooled itself without noisy...
The Soviet Victor III attack submarine, introduced in 1979, was the first Soviet boat quiet enough to hide in the ocean’s background noise. As...
The Pentagon forced the Navy and Air Force to share one jet in the 1960s. The Air Force’s F-111A delivered 25,000 to 30,000 pounds...
After the 1960 U-2 shootdown, the CIA wanted a plane nothing could catch: Lockheed’s A-12 Oxcart, Mach 3.2 at 90,000 feet, tested at Area...
Britain’s two Queen Elizabeth-class carriers were built across 6 shipyards and 90 companies employing 10,000 workers. HMS Prince of Wales lost 6 months to...
Sean Spoonts, a former Navy anti-submarine warfare operator, traces the Soviet Alfa-class (Project 705 Lira) from World War II submarines that sank 55 percent...