Aerospace & Defense
Brazil acquired the 37-year-old French aircraft carrier Foch in 2000 for a reported $12 million, renaming it Sao Paulo. On May 17, 2005, a...
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Brazil acquired the 37-year-old French aircraft carrier Foch in 2000 for a reported $12 million, renaming it Sao Paulo. On May 17, 2005, a...
Contracts already signed, sections already under construction, termination penalties, lost economies of scale and a tax bill payable on a ship nobody finished. The...
The US Navy Had A Big Idea: In the late 1970s, proposals were made to convert the Iowa-class battleships into "battlecarriers" with a flight...
US Navy aircraft carriers have been out to sea longer and longer over the last year. USS Gerald R. Ford broke records and now...
Forrestal, Saratoga, Ranger, Kitty Hawk and John F. Kennedy each went to shipbreakers for one cent. Dismantling USS Enterprise, the first nuclear carrier, will...
On 26 October 2006 a 2,200-ton Chinese Song-class diesel submarine surfaced about five miles from USS Kitty Hawk in the East China Sea, inside...
USS Coral Sea was the first Navy vessel to deploy an air wing built around the F/A-18 Hornet, and the first to fire the...
Shinano was commissioned on 19 November 1944 as the largest aircraft carrier ever built, displacing roughly 72,000 long tons on a converted Yamato-class hull....
USS Saratoga cost $209.7 million, displaced 81,101 tons and carried up to 100 aircraft before fighting in Vietnam and Desert Storm.
USS Midway entered service with 18 five-inch guns, room for 120 aircraft and a 3.5-inch armored flight deck. Four steam turbines produced 212,000 shaft...