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The Navy planned twenty-nine Seawolf-class attack submarines to take on the Soviet fleet. After the Cold War ended, Congress reduced the programme to twelve,...
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The Navy planned twenty-nine Seawolf-class attack submarines to take on the Soviet fleet. After the Cold War ended, Congress reduced the programme to twelve,...
USS Jimmy Carter measures 453 feet against the 353 of her two Seawolf-class sisters. The difference is a 100-foot section inserted amidships during construction,...
Germany laid down two H-39 battleships in 1939. Each was designed to displace roughly 62,600 tons, make 30 knots and carry eight 16-inch guns....
Marines lost almost as many dead in 76 hours at Tarawa in November 1943 as American forces lost across the six-month Guadalcanal campaign. The...
When people think of American aircraft carriers, they usually think about one of the many nuclear-powered carriers that the Navy has built over the...
HMS Daring entered extended maintenance in 2017 and spent roughly eight years out of operational service while engineers cut open her hull and fitted...
USS Independence aircraft carrier: Her long career was defined by constant deployments during the most heightened parts of the Cold War–like the Cuban Missile...
USS Coral Sea was the first Navy vessel to deploy an air wing built around the F/A-18 Hornet, and the first to fire the...
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...