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Any US war with China would be expeditionary, fought at the end of long supply lines, while China would defend close to home with...
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Any US war with China would be expeditionary, fought at the end of long supply lines, while China would defend close to home with...
The USS Gerald R. Ford was the first carrier in the world with electromagnetic catapults, advanced arresting gear, and magnetic weapons elevators, and it...
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 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 —...
USS Gerald R. Ford was commissioned in 2017 with electromagnetic catapults and new arresting gear, but without the digital maintenance, logistics, and mission-data systems...
USS Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 after seven years and almost $2 billion, and her design shaped nine more carriers through 2009. She...
USS Nimitz flash-boils seawater in four distilling units and can make about 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day, roughly 80 gallons for each...
Iran mostly didn't go after U.S. aircraft carriers or fighter jets. It went after the bases. Iranian missiles and drones broke through U.S. air...