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Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, the U.S. Navy seriously considered building a class of 50,000–60,000-ton CVV medium carriers to bulk up...
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Key Points and Summary – In the 1970s, the U.S. Navy seriously considered building a class of 50,000–60,000-ton CVV medium carriers to bulk up...
Key Points and Summary – The USS Gerald R. Ford took 12 years to build and became a symbol of cost overruns, schedule slips,...
Key Points and Summary – Admiral Kuznetsov was never a normal carrier. Born as a “heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser” to slip through the Montreux Convention,...
Key Points and Summary – In a little-known 1981 NATO exercise, a quietly upgraded Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine slipped through the defenses of a...
Article Summary – In 1984, a Soviet Victor-class submarine, K-314, unexpectedly surfaced at night directly in front of USS Kitty Hawk during exercises in...
Article Summary – The Midway-class aircraft carriers were conceived during World War II but entered service too late to see combat, emerging instead as...
Article Summary – Born from Cold War fears of Soviet bombers, submarines, and missiles, USS Nimitz (CVN-68) became the template for the modern nuclear...
Article Summary – USS Saratoga (CV-60) was the second Forrestal-class “supercarrier,” built to bring the Navy into the jet age with angled decks, steam...
As for the Nimitz, some may wonder how they will compare to the Ford-class once it is more fully operational, yet upgrades to the...
Key Points – Russia’s lone aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, has been pier-bound in Murmansk for over eight years, its “return to sea” repeatedly derailed...