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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...
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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...
Shinano was commissioned on 19 November 1944 as the largest aircraft carrier ever built, displacing roughly 72,000 long tons on a converted Yamato-class hull....
The four Iowa-class battleships cost roughly $100 million apiece, fought from World War II through Desert Storm, and were reactivated three separate times —...
Five Montana-class battleships were authorized in 1940: bigger than the Iowas, with twelve 16-inch guns and the only American armor designed to stop its...
USS Iowa was commissioned on 22 February 1943, decommissioned in 1949, recommissioned for Korea in 1951, decommissioned again in 1958, recommissioned under the Reagan...
Japan’s battleship Musashi displaced more than 72,000 tons, carried nine 18.1-inch guns and protected its vital spaces with armor more than two feet thick....
A contemporary account placed spending on USS Kentucky at $55 million before construction ended with the hull slightly more than 72 percent complete. The...