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Despite a protest from Brazil’s Environmental Ministry, the Brazilian Navy has announced plans to scuttle and sink its decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic...
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Despite a protest from Brazil’s Environmental Ministry, the Brazilian Navy has announced plans to scuttle and sink its decommissioned aircraft carrier in the Atlantic...
While the big, nuclear-powered aircraft carriers of today surely capture the imagination, smaller flattops during World War II certainly held their own: While smaller and...
The H44 would have been a 144,000-ton monster battleship. And thankfully, it was never meant to be: Before the outbreak of the Second World War,...
It wasn’t that long ago that suggesting that China is enamored of Alfred Thayer Mahan’s ideas about sea power was a laugh line. Nowadays...
What is a Supercavitating Torpedo? Originally designed as a countermeasure to NATO nuclear missile submarines, the Soviet-era VA-111 Shkval supercavitating (SC) torpedo remains a formidable...
Earlier this month, the Royal Navy announced that its warships had spent nearly 10,000 hours – roughly 60 weeks in total – on NATO...
To suggest that the Nazis had “grand ambitions” is an understatement, and the key to those plans for domination over Europe was to build...
South Korea is well on track to become a major military hardware exporter. Though the Asian nation has traditionally been heavily reliant upon the...
Though it is currently possible to walk the decks of seven United States Navy battleships dating back to the Second World War, which have...
Including amphibious assault ships (LHA), there are now 47 active aircraft carriers in the world, operated by fourteen navies. More than a third of...