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The Shah bought the F-14 Tomcat because he wanted something that could reach Soviet reconnaissance aircraft at long range, and paid roughly $2 billion...
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The Shah bought the F-14 Tomcat because he wanted something that could reach Soviet reconnaissance aircraft at long range, and paid roughly $2 billion...
In October 2010 a new British government decided its two future aircraft carriers would have catapults and arresting wires to fly the F-35C; in...
Nimitz was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, in 1885, wanted West Point, settled for Annapolis at sixteen, and put his first command on the bottom....
A nuclear submarine cannot switch off its reactor, which means coolant pumps, a steam plant and reduction gears are always turning. A diesel-electric boat...
Ordinary pressure hulls were steel. Project 661 (also known as the Papa-Class or the K-222 submarine) used titanium alloy, which meant the Soviet Union...
The Navy historically allowed six months for a Planned Incremental Availability. The Carl Vinson's latest ran seven, from November 2025 to June 12, 2026....
The Varyag aircraft carrier had no propulsion and no crew, so it had to be dragged. Turkey refused passage through the Bosphorus for sixteen...
USS Abraham Lincoln went 264 days without a port visit and USS Gerald R. Ford deployed 326 days. USS Theodore Roosevelt is converting compartments...
HNLMS Walrus was a 2,800-ton Dutch diesel boat costing somewhere between $340,000,000 and half a billion — less than one of the Aegis escorts...
The Pratt & Whitney TF30 began in 1958 as a proposal for a short-haul jet airliner. It ended up in the F-14 Tomcat because...