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Commissioned 1940–1942, the Royal Navy’s King George V-class battleships carried ten 14-inch guns under treaty limits other navies moved past. HMS King George V...
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Commissioned 1940–1942, the Royal Navy’s King George V-class battleships carried ten 14-inch guns under treaty limits other navies moved past. HMS King George V...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines produced 32,500 pounds of thrust each and pushed the jet to Mach 3.2, but no...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...
The Navy’s Middle East blockade line has backed hundreds of kilometers away from the Strait of Hormuz and into what looks like Pakistani waters...
In 1949 the Navy laid the keel of USS United States, a 65,000-ton supercarrier. Five days later Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled it in...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...
The F-14 Tomcat was designed around a Pratt & Whitney F-401 engine that was not ready in time, so Grumman used the TF-30 from...