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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
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After the US Navy retired the F-14 in 2006, investigators found sensitive Tomcat components were still entering public surplus sales. Iran remained the only...
Operating from the Red Sea with CVW-17, Saratoga completed six transits of the Suez Canal and her air wing delivered 4,047,000 pounds of ordnance....
Philadelphia began building USS Illinois in January 1945 as the fifth Iowa-class battleship. The all-welded, 45,000-ton design would have carried nine 16-inch guns, but...
Shinano was commissioned on 19 November 1944 as the largest aircraft carrier ever built, displacing roughly 72,000 long tons on a converted Yamato-class hull....
The four Iowa-class battleships cost roughly $100 million apiece, fought from World War II through Desert Storm, and were reactivated three separate times —...
Five Montana-class battleships were authorized in 1940: bigger than the Iowas, with twelve 16-inch guns and the only American armor designed to stop its...
USS Virginia entered the Navy's nuclear-ship recycling program at Puget Sound in 1999 and was taken apart. One piece of her survived: a 43,000-pound...
Without the efficacy of the M60A3, there could never have been the Abrams. The M60A3 should go down as an important Cold War relic...
USS Iowa was commissioned on 22 February 1943, decommissioned in 1949, recommissioned for Korea in 1951, decommissioned again in 1958, recommissioned under the Reagan...
B-2 crews flew 36 hours nonstop and more than 13,000 miles round trip from Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri to strike Iran's nuclear...
After Italy surrendered in September 1943, the surviving Littorio-class battleships were ordered to Malta to be interned. Luftwaffe aircraft attacked them en route with...