Aerospace & Defense
During NATO’s Ocean Venture exercise in 1981, a 1960s-vintage Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine running silent on battery power slipped past the destroyers, submarines and...
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During NATO’s Ocean Venture exercise in 1981, a 1960s-vintage Canadian Oberon-class diesel submarine running silent on battery power slipped past the destroyers, submarines and...
The Navy is retiring its biggest Tomahawk magazines: four Ohio-class SSGNs at 154 missiles each and Ticonderoga cruisers with 122 cells, replaced by Burkes...
China’s shipbuilding capacity is 200 times America’s. The Navy’s answer, the 10,000-ton, $8 billion SSN(X), slipped from the mid-2030s to the 2040s because Electric...
The 1998 Strategic Defence Review gave the Royal Navy two 30,000-to-40,000-ton flattops with about 50 aircraft to replace three Invincible-class light carriers too small...
A former US Navy ASW operator says the Kilo-class ‘black hole’ hype was a joke. Quiet only at 3 knots, it has to snorkel...
“Some of the best advice I’ve had comes from junior officers and enlisted men.” Chester Nimitz ran USS Decatur aground as an ensign and...
Britain has kept a missile submarine at sea every day since 1969 with just four Vanguard-class boats. HMS Vanguard’s refit ran 89 months, longer...
Three 1980s upgrades gave each 57,500-ton Iowa-class battleship four Phalanx guns at 4,500 rounds a minute, 16 Harpoons reaching 150 nautical miles, and 32...
"We shall never forget that it was our submarines that held the lines against an enemy while our fleets replaced losses and repaired wounds."...
China mounted a railgun on the landing ship Haiyangshan in 2018 and never took it off. Its researchers claim Mach 6, 100 to 200...