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USS Saratoga of the Forrestal-Class Aircraft Carriers

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1,000-Pound Bombs Made in 1953 Turned a 75,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Fire Into a Catastrophe. 7 of the Korean War-Era Bombs Were Among the First to Detonate

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...

Brandon Weichert5 days ago

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Began Building Its $22,000,000,000 Constellation Frigate at 87% of the Blueprints. A Year After Killing It, the Navy Is Buying a Coast Guard Cutter

Canceled last November after a 20-ship, $22 billion plan collapsed, the frigate is being replaced by an upgraded Coast Guard Legend-class cutter. HII has...

Brandon Weichert5 days ago

USS Enterprise Nuclear Aircraft Carrier US Navy

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A Rack of 500-Pound Bombs Blew a 22-by-18-Foot Hole in Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Beside a Tanker Holding 6,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel. She Was Back at Sea the Same Year

The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier fire burned more than three hours 70 miles from Pearl Harbor and knocked out the ship's own firefighting gear....

Brandon Weichert5 days ago

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Needed a New Stealth Fighter Badly to Compete with China: The New Boeing F/A-XX Is One Massive Upgrade

Technical details are classified and Boeing's own image is likely provisional, but the F/A-XX jet is expected to shed the tail fins of the...

Caleb Larson5 days ago

Aerospace & Defense

The S-3 Viking: The Submarine-Hunting “War Hoover” Has No Equal Today on a US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier

The S-3 Viking had ten hours of endurance, could make better than 500 mph at 25,000 feet, and carried a four-man crew with sonobuoys...

Sean Spoonts6 days ago

F-14 Tomcat Museum Photo 19FortyFive Photo Taken September 2026

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An F-14 Tomcat Pilot Could Sweep His Wings Back by Hand to Show an Enemy Fighter a False Airspeed. He Could Not Sweep Them Forward of What the Computer Commanded, Because the Lift Would Have Damaged the Aircraft.

The Navy walked out of the joint program with the Air Force because it did not believe a shared design could survive carrier operations,...

Isaac Seitz6 days ago

ATLANTIC OCEAN (Feb 04, 2012) Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). Enterprise is underway participating in exercise Bold Alligator 2012. Bold Alligator 2012, the largest naval amphibious exercise in the past 10 years, represents the Navy and Marine Corps' revitalization of the full range of amphibious operations. The exercise focuses on today's fight with today's forces, while showcasing the advantages of seabasing. This exercise will take place 30 Jan - 12 Feb, 2012 afloat and ashore in and around Virginia and North Carolina. (US Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Nick C. Scott)

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Building Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Took Less Than 4 Years. Taking Her Apart Will Take Nearly 18. The US Navy Spent $902,000,000 Just Making Her Safe Enough to Sit at a Pier, and Another $111,000,000 Keeping Her There While It Decided What to Do.

GAO warned in 2018 that the job was closer to decommissioning a nuclear power plant than breaking up a ship, priced the public-shipyard route...

Steve Balestrieri6 days ago

Aerospace & Defense

Oil Might Be Flowing Through the Strait of Hormuz, But for All the Wrong Reasons

Iranian crude still leaks out via the Caspian and land borders with Azerbaijan, Turkey and Turkmenistan. Saudi tankers are steering south through Houthi-held waters...

Michael Rubin6 days ago

The Embassy

9/11’s Forgotten Lesson

Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...

Raphael Cohen6 days ago

The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) steams in the Pacific Ocean, Oct. 5, 2024. Nimitz is underway in 3rd Fleet conducting routine training operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Carson Croom)

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A Conventionally Powered Aircraft Carrier Refuels in a Few Hours. Refueling a Nuclear Nimitz-Class Carrier Takes 3 to 5 Years and Requires Cutting Holes Through the Decks to Reach the Reactors. USS John C. Stennis Is Finishing Hers 14 Months Late.

Newport News does every carrier refueling, and it starts by pumping a million gallons of seawater out of the drydock. Both reactors are shut...

Sean Spoonts6 days ago

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Aerospace & Defense

1,000-Pound Bombs Made in 1953 Turned a 75,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Fire Into a Catastrophe. 7 of the Korean War-Era Bombs Were Among the First to Detonate

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Began Building Its $22,000,000,000 Constellation Frigate at 87% of the Blueprints. A Year After Killing It, the Navy Is Buying a Coast Guard Cutter

Aerospace & Defense

A Rack of 500-Pound Bombs Blew a 22-by-18-Foot Hole in Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Beside a Tanker Holding 6,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel. She Was Back at Sea the Same Year

Aerospace & Defense

The US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Needed a New Stealth Fighter Badly to Compete with China: The New Boeing F/A-XX Is One Massive Upgrade

Aerospace & Defense

The S-3 Viking: The Submarine-Hunting “War Hoover” Has No Equal Today on a US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier

Aerospace & Defense

An F-14 Tomcat Pilot Could Sweep His Wings Back by Hand to Show an Enemy Fighter a False Airspeed. He Could Not Sweep Them Forward of What the Computer Commanded, Because the Lift Would Have Damaged the Aircraft.

Aerospace & Defense

Building Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Took Less Than 4 Years. Taking Her Apart Will Take Nearly 18. The US Navy Spent $902,000,000 Just Making Her Safe Enough to Sit at a Pier, and Another $111,000,000 Keeping Her There While It Decided What to Do.

Aerospace & Defense

Oil Might Be Flowing Through the Strait of Hormuz, But for All the Wrong Reasons

The Embassy

9/11’s Forgotten Lesson

Aerospace & Defense

A Conventionally Powered Aircraft Carrier Refuels in a Few Hours. Refueling a Nuclear Nimitz-Class Carrier Takes 3 to 5 Years and Requires Cutting Holes Through the Decks to Reach the Reactors. USS John C. Stennis Is Finishing Hers 14 Months Late.

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