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The Navy meant to deactivate USS Nimitz in May 2026. She is staying until March 2027, at 51 years old, because the ship meant...
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The Navy meant to deactivate USS Nimitz in May 2026. She is staying until March 2027, at 51 years old, because the ship meant...
Five retired U.S. aircraft carriers became famous for one-cent disposal contracts. The penny was not a valuation of the ship. It reflected an arrangement...
The Battle of the Coral Sea ended on May 8, 1942, the first naval engagement in which the opposing fleets never sighted one another....
The Iowa class was designed for a fight that never arrived. Four ships, 36 sixteen-inch guns, 33 knots to run down Japan's fast capital...
Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
The USS George Washington strike group came through the Luzon Strait on July 22, and two days later Chinese vessels were using water cannons...
The story gets repeated in a fixed shape: a cheap Canadian diesel submarine caught a nuclear supercarrier during a 1981 NATO exercise. The documentary...
The Soviet Union completed four nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers, and as of this summer their fates diverge completely. One went for dismantlement under a five-billion-ruble...
The Navy planned 32 Zumwalt-class destroyers and built three. It planned 20 Constellation-class frigates, and cancelled the program in November 2025 with two under...
The question people ask is whether China could sink an American supercarrier. It is the wrong question. A carrier that still floats but cannot...