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The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship guns ever made. Yet the American...
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The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship guns ever made. Yet the American...
Nazi Germany's Horten Ho 229 was the world's first flying-wing jet aircraft, and its triangular shape looks uncannily like a modern stealth plane. That...
The first Komet flew in 1941 and shattered every speed record of its age, exceeding 620 mph before the jet engine even existed. For...
In 1944, before night vision or GPS, the Northrop P-61 Black Widow hunted enemy bombers in total darkness. It was the first American combat...
The Iowa-class battleships were the most powerful America ever built, designed to win a decisive gun duel with an enemy fleet. By the time...
America's last and largest battleships were ordered, numbered, and never built. The Montana-class would have out-gunned the Iowa, matched Japan's Yamato, and been too...
After the Yamato, Japan's engineers asked what could possibly come next, and the answer was a battleship even larger, armed with the biggest naval...
The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and rebuilt to...
USS Midway entered service eight days after Japan's surrender, missing the war that shaped her by a week. Instead of a quiet career, she...
China is racing toward nine aircraft carriers by 2035, the fastest carrier buildup since World War II. But a carrier never fights alone —...