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On 26 October 2006, a Chinese Song-class diesel-electric attack submarine surfaced within five miles of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk near Okinawa. A...
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On 26 October 2006, a Chinese Song-class diesel-electric attack submarine surfaced within five miles of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk near Okinawa. A...
Douglas built 2,960 A-4 Skyhawks between 1954 and 1979. The National Naval Aviation Museum counts 195 carrier-based Skyhawks lost to enemy fire in Vietnam...
Vosper Ltd built four Mark 5 light frigates in Britain for the Imperial Iranian Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. All four...
The Zumwalt class was designed around stealth, two 155mm guns and a 32-ship fleet. Cost growth cut the class to three, sending its unique...
Nineteen former US Navy Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates are in service under foreign flags — eight in Turkey, four in Egypt, two each in...
HMS Vanguard's overhaul was originally scheduled for about three years and ran past 2,700 days. The contract was not fixed-price, and the final bill...
By the mid-1980s only a few dozen of the Shah's 225 F-4 Phantoms could still get airborne. Each flight hour is estimated to have...
Contracts already signed, sections already under construction, termination penalties, lost economies of scale and a tax bill payable on a ship nobody finished. The...
The fleet it replaces was built for Britain's Royal Navy during the Cold War and bought secondhand in 1998. When the German yard was...
The German “pocket battleship” was an unofficial term used by the British press to describe the Deutschland-class cruisers (Panzerschiffe) built by Nazi Germany in...