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Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s latest shipbuilding plan would retire 46 ships from 2027 to 2031 — including 2 aircraft carriers, 10...
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Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s latest shipbuilding plan would retire 46 ships from 2027 to 2031 — including 2 aircraft carriers, 10...
France’s Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the U.S. fleet — half the size of a Nimitz-class but built...
Britain’s Astute-class nuclear-powered attack submarine is so quiet that sonar operators have mistaken its acoustic signature for a baby dolphin or ambient ocean background...
The B-52 Stratofortress pilots perfected low-level flying during the Cold War to operate under Soviet radar systems after the Soviets made significant enhancements to...
Each U.S. Navy Ohio-class SSGN guided-missile submarine carries up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Each U.S. Navy Ohio-class SSGN has 22 missile tubes —...
Vice Admiral Thomas Connolly famously said the F-111B Navy variant lacked “enough thrust in all Christendom to make a Navy fighter out of that...
The U.S. Navy designed the most powerful battleship ever conceived — and canceled it before a single hull was finished, as it was already...
The U.S. Navy’s Seawolf-class submarine was supposed to dominate the depths for decades and replace the entire Los Angeles-class with 29 next-generation boats—but only...
The People’s Republic of China’s Chengdu Aircraft Industry Group J-36 sixth-generation stealth fighter — a three-engine fighter-bomber hybrid with a blended-wing-body configuration first photographed...
The Boeing EA-18G Growler is the most strategically important fighter in the U.S. Navy that almost nobody talks about—the only crewed tactical jammer in...