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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...
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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 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 flash-boils seawater in four distilling units and can make about 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day, roughly 80 gallons for each...
HII received an undefinitized $336 million award this month to begin buying propulsion-plant material for CVN-82 — advance procurement, not the construction contract. What...
US Navy aircraft carriers are among the most powerful weapons on Earth and operate as a venerable floating airbase. But they can be defeated...
The USS Gerald R. Ford US Navy nuclear aircraft carrier surely hasn't been problem free. The USS John F. Kennedy, the second supercarrier of...
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...
The Navy first said two sailors were hurt aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford. More than 200 were treated for smoke inhalation. Six months...
The Navy's FY2027 shipbuilding book gave the reason in the flattest language a budget document allows: construction-footprint constraints. There is not enough physical space...