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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...
Waste in the military has long been a problem—but in the case of the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers, the problem has been specifically one of human...
A pair of Iranian Navy vessels arrived in Brazil last month, despite Tehran being under U.S. sanctions, and will next travel to the Panama...
It isn’t a late Christmas present for Moscow, but it could be the next best thing. In March, the Russian Navy will reportedly receive...
Earlier this month, the United States Navy’s Nimitz Carrier Strike Group (NIMCSG) began operations in the South China Sea – the first during the...
A few years back, the U.S. Navy began to look into how it could extend the service lives of its Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines beyond the now forty-two-year planned...
So is it going to be Mahan or Corbett in orbit? Corbett, according to Frank Calvelli, the top acquisition executive for the U.S. Space...
Ask any armchair historian to name the largest naval battle in history and a typical response is the “Battle of Leyte Gulf,” fought in October 1944 off the...
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,...