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Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
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Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
General Dynamics took the lightweight F-16, gave it a cranked-arrow delta wing with 120 percent more area, raised the hardpoint count from 9 to...
Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly flew the F-111B himself and then told a congressional committee there was not enough thrust in all Christendom to make...
The F-22 Raptor entered service in 2005 and the line shut down in 2011, which means every dollar of the $10,900,000,000 modernization contract Lockheed...
The Navy's FY2027 shipbuilding book gave the reason in the flattest language a budget document allows: construction-footprint constraints. There is not enough physical space...
The Seawolf-class was meant to be the American attack submarine of the 21st century. It was faster than a Los Angeles, dived deeper, ran...
The Constellation-class was supposed to be the safe option — a proven Italian FREMM hull, 85 percent common with the original, mostly off-the-shelf parts,...
The Montana-class was the largest battleship the United States ever designed and none of the five was ever started. At 921 feet with a...
The Kilo-class earned the nickname "black hole" during the Cold War and has been trading on it ever since. Naval analyst H I Sutton...
The most remarkable thing the YF-12A ever did was not the speed record. In the mid-1960s a YF-12 travelling at Mach 3.2 and 75,000...
On July 21, 1921, Brigadier General Billy Mitchell sank the captured German battleship Ostfriesland with bombs dropped from aircraft, and the age of the...