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The Seawolf-class submarine was the quietest, fastest and most heavily armed attack boat anyone had built. The Navy stopped at three anyway. The 1993...
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The Seawolf-class submarine was the quietest, fastest and most heavily armed attack boat anyone had built. The Navy stopped at three anyway. The 1993...
America owns eleven aircraft carriers and can put about four to sea at any given moment. The rest are tied up in maintenance cycles...
The Mossberg 500 arrived in the 1960s as an affordable pump-action for hunting and general use. Two decades later, as law enforcement agencies and...
The most expensive warship, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier, runs its plumbing on a vacuum. Thirty miles of narrow copper pipe, pumps,...
Aircraft carriers are several military organizations welded together. That’s why the cycles can move so slowly, and why ramping up for a deployment is...
The reactors on a Nimitz-class carrier are buried behind structural compartments, radiation shielding, machinery spaces and armor. That is deliberate, and in combat it...
On the night of October 25, 1944, a Japanese force pushed north through Surigao Strait and found six American battleships waiting across its path....
The Type 45 destroyer is one of the most capable air defense warships ever built, and it does not like warm water. The WR-21's...
The mine cost about $1,500. The repair bill exceeded $90 million. On April 14, 1988, the guided-missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts - commissioned...
She was laid down at Yokosuka in May 1940 as the third Yamato-class battleship, meant to carry 18.1-inch guns into a decisive surface battle...