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Key Points and Summary – The F-14 Tomcat became an American icon, but its early years were shadowed by a serious propulsion flaw: the...
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Key Points and Summary – The F-14 Tomcat became an American icon, but its early years were shadowed by a serious propulsion flaw: the...
Key Points and Summary – America nearly built a battleship bigger than Iowa: the Montana-class. -Authorized during World War II, it was designed for...
Key Points and Summary – America’s four Ohio-class SSGNs carry up to 154 Tomahawks apiece, giving the Navy a stealthy, mobile strike magazine for...
Key Points and Summary – The U.S. Navy does not disclose an exact flank speed for the Ford-class aircraft carrier, but public materials describe...
Key Points and Summary – Pearl Harbor has a second, forgotten catastrophe. On May 21, 1944, West Loch—packed with LSTs loaded for the Saipan...
Key Points and Summary – The AIM-54 Phoenix made the F-14 Tomcat a true long-range interceptor: an active-radar missile built to strike bombers and...
Key Points and Summary – A 2015 NATO exercise saw France’s nuclear attack submarine Saphir penetrate a U.S. carrier strike group and achieve a...
Key Points and Summary – During a 2000 joint U.S.–Australian exercise, an Australian Collins-class diesel-electric submarine reached a valid simulated firing position on a...
Key Points and Summary – The Grumman A-6 Intruder entered Navy and Marine Corps service in 1963 as America’s first true all-weather carrier attack...
Key Points and Summary – In February 2009, Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant—both ballistic-missile submarines—collided while submerged in the Atlantic during routine...