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Ford was built with thinner deck and bulkhead plates to save weight, and the steel turned out to be harder to work with —...
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Ford was built with thinner deck and bulkhead plates to save weight, and the steel turned out to be harder to work with —...
Any US war with China would be expeditionary, fought at the end of long supply lines, while China would defend close to home with...
Ocean Venture '81 ran from August 1 into October with ships and aircraft from 14 countries. In one phase, a force built around USS...
The USS Gerald R. Ford was the first carrier in the world with electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear, and magnetic weapons elevators, and it...
The TF30 wanted smooth, straight airflow, which it got on the F-111 but not on a fighter pulling hard turns at high angles of...
Rather than design new naval reactors, France adapted two K15 pressurized-water reactors from its ballistic-missile submarines. That saved money but left the 858-foot, 42,000-ton...
The Viking's goodbye took years. The fleet retired it in January 2009 in Jacksonville, but the VX-30 Bloodhounds at Point Mugu kept three flying...
The F-14 was built to stop Soviet bombers and cruise missiles before they reached the carrier. A pilot and a radar intercept officer could...
The DF-26 alone could force U.S. carriers to operate thousands of miles offshore, where a carrier air wing can't strike without non-stealthy aerial refuelers...
The problem is heat. F-35C exhaust needs jet blast deflectors tougher than the ones installed, plus classified spaces for the aircraft's mission systems —...