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In the South China Sea, skirmishes amongst fishing fleets and coast guards near a contested shoal are commonplace. But there is a bigger fight...
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In the South China Sea, skirmishes amongst fishing fleets and coast guards near a contested shoal are commonplace. But there is a bigger fight...
Amphibious Assault Ships: Explained in 3 Minutes – From a distance, it would be easy to mistake the U.S. Navy’s USS Wasp (LHD-1) and her six sister...
Japan’s Escort Aircraft Carriers, A Short History: In the late 1930s, the Imperial Japanese Navy began a shadow carrier program, in which three ships of...
F-111, The Story of One Tough Aircraft: The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was a low-altitude strike plane born out of a shotgun wedding between competing Air...
The US Navy Has a Shipyard Problem That China Could Exploit In a War: The ghost of Mahan smiles. A few months back, a bipartisan cohort of...
Would China Really Built a Naval Base in the Atlantic Ocean? A few months back General Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S. Africa Command, told...
Ohio-Class, a History of the US Navy’s Most Powerful Ballistic Missile Submarine: Nine years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Ishirō Honda’s Godzilla depicted a monster awakened...
Why US Navy Nuclear Submarines Could Be Obsolete, a Primer: Nuclear-powered submarines have traditionally held a decisive edge in endurance, stealth and speed over cheaper diesel...
Why Russia Would Attack US Navy Aircraft Carriers in a War: During the Cold War, despite having the world’s largest navy, the Soviet Union was still primarily...
The Navy Has Plans Beyond Its Railgun: A “railgun” is a concept that may seem like something straight out of science fiction: a weapon that...