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The 100,000-ton aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is the 8th Nimitz-class ship to enter a refueling overhaul, and she starts 3.5 years behind...
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The 100,000-ton aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is the 8th Nimitz-class ship to enter a refueling overhaul, and she starts 3.5 years behind...
Pilots called the side-by-side two-seater 'the Drumstick.' Its DIANE radar painted the terrain on a green screen for night attacks, and later FLIR let...
A lit match dropped into a bucket of JP-7 went out. The fuel dissolved hose linings, demanded its own fleet of 56 modified KC-135Q...
The S-3 Viking had ten hours of endurance, could make better than 500 mph at 25,000 feet, and carried a four-man crew with sonobuoys...
Reviving the SR-71 Blackbird means finding four J58 engines, replacing rodent-chewed wiring, building two JP-7 tankers and absorbing 300 maintenance hours per hour aloft....
Newport News does every carrier refueling, and it starts by pumping a million gallons of seawater out of the drydock. Both reactors are shut...
Project 705 was built from a titanium alloy that cannot be welded in open air, so the Soviets constructed a sealed hall filled with...
The VCHT replaced gravity plumbing the Navy had used since the age of sail — narrower pipes, less fresh water, bends where straight drops...
With 11 carrier strike groups covering the commitments 15 once did, nine- and 11-month deployments are becoming routine. Crews get 12-hour shifts, deferred maintenance...
In February 1964 the White House announced a new interceptor called the A-11 so anyone spotting the sleek black jets would think fighter, not...