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The helicopter's structural weakness has been the same since Vietnam: to be useful it must fly into the range of what is trying to...
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The helicopter's structural weakness has been the same since Vietnam: to be useful it must fly into the range of what is trying to...
The Kilo-class submarine was designed in the 1970s, and Russia is still building it. That was not the plan. The follow-on Lada class, Project...
The Houthis never sank an American warship. What they did instead was make the Navy pay to stay afloat. On one Red Sea deployment...
Eight months and 46,500 miles from home, USS Enterprise missed the dredged channel into Naval Air Station Alameda and drove onto a mud bar...
On November 2, 1985, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier struck Bishop Rock at Cortes Bank, about a hundred miles from San Diego. Contemporary...
The X-43D was designed to hold a scramjet at Mach 15 for thirty seconds, released from a Peacekeeper rocket at 200,000 feet. A 2004...
The final bill for the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier now runs to about $1.3 billion — $902 million to inactivate her, $111 million to...
The Navy meant to deactivate USS Nimitz in May 2026. She is staying until March 2027, at 51 years old, because the ship meant...
The fastest air-breathing aircraft ever flown was twelve feet long, carried no pilot, and was designed from the start to end up in the...
Five retired U.S. aircraft carriers became famous for one-cent disposal contracts. The penny was not a valuation of the ship. It reflected an arrangement...
The Battle of the Coral Sea ended on May 8, 1942, the first naval engagement in which the opposing fleets never sighted one another....