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USS North Carolina combined 44,800 tons, 121,000 horsepower and nine 16-inch guns in one treaty-era battleship. She survived a Japanese torpedo, earned 15 battle...
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USS North Carolina combined 44,800 tons, 121,000 horsepower and nine 16-inch guns in one treaty-era battleship. She survived a Japanese torpedo, earned 15 battle...
USS Massachusetts cost about $80 million, displaced 44,519 tons at full combat load and carried nine 16-inch guns able to throw a 24,300-pound armor-piercing...
USS Gerald R. Ford is a 100,000-ton nuclear-powered air base with a roughly five-acre flight deck, room for about 75 aircraft and 11 weapons...
The F-14D left the Navy while it was still fighting — a final combat sortie over Iraq in February 2006, the retirement ceremony seven...
USS New Jersey fired in combat across four conflicts separated by forty years. She screened the fast carriers through the Pacific war, came out...
China had three carriers in commission at the end of July and, according to the Pentagon, wants nine by 2035. The hulls are the...
A penny does not sound like the price of an aircraft carrier, and it isn't. What the buyer acquired for a cent apiece when...
A stray Zuni rocket, unstable bombs and bypassed safety procedures nearly destroyed USS Forrestal and killed 134 sailors off Vietnam.
USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
Americans picture a retired aircraft carrier becoming a museum, like the Midway or the Yorktown. Only a handful ever do. Most are towed to...