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America's biggest battleship never built: 71,000 tons, 921 feet, twelve 16-inch guns, a 16.1-inch belt, and a 121-foot beam too wide for the Panama...
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America's biggest battleship never built: 71,000 tons, 921 feet, twelve 16-inch guns, a 16.1-inch belt, and a 121-foot beam too wide for the Panama...
Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford's 11 Advanced Weapons Elevators were built to move 24,000 pounds at 150 feet per minute and boost sorties...
An Arleigh Burke carries 90 to 96 missiles, and the Navy fires seven-figure interceptors at quadcopters. The 30-kilowatt LaWS on USS Ponce proved lasers...
Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring pulled into Portsmouth in 2017 for a propulsion fix and spent 3,300 days out of action. Her crew went...
The Constellation-class was supposed to be 85 percent FREMM and cheap. It gained 500 tons, blew its budget, and was canceled. The FF(X) replacing...
Four Iowa-class battleships left mothballs with 32 Tomahawks in eight armored boxes, 16 Harpoons, and guns that put 15 shells into a 220-yard pattern....
A Los Angeles-class sub tied to the pier made more noise than a Seawolf at 20 knots. Built to hunt 48,000-ton Typhoons under Arctic...
Russia's Lada-class was meant to out-stealth the Kilo 'black hole' submarines. Instead the lead boat, Sankt Peterburg, took 14 years to commission, was judged...
The arresting gear didn't hold. A VAQ-130 Growler rolled off aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower into the Atlantic, both aviators ejected, and the...
The external stations were mechanically disabled under START so the aircraft could be verified as non-nuclear. BEAST — B-1 Embracing Agile Scheduling — brings...