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The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
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The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
Iran's armor still mixes US M60s, British Chieftains, hundreds of T-72S and the homegrown Zulfiqar. A reported $10 billion Russian package never produced a...
The 728-foot North Carolina-class battleship fired a 24,300-pound broadside from nine 16-inch guns. She earned 13 battle stars, survived a 1944 collision with USS...
No new parts may be built under the bill, so F-14D Tomcat restorers must work from Navy stocks. The F110 engines are the easy...
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...
The 85% titanium skin broke drill bits every 17 holes and could only be washed with distilled water. Lockheed has teased an unmanned SR-72...
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 crew had cut the route short to make up time. HMS Astute sat on the bank for 10 hours, was struck by the...
Laid down at Mykolaiv in 1988 beside the future Liaoning, the 1,054-foot aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk had a 70%-complete hull by 1992 when Russia told...
Korean War-era 1,000-pound bombs with weakened casings cooked off within minutes, and crews fighting with water spread the burning fuel. The aircraft carrier USS...