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Rather than design new naval reactors, France adapted two K15 pressurized-water reactors from its ballistic-missile submarines. That saved money but left the 858-foot, 42,000-ton...
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Rather than design new naval reactors, France adapted two K15 pressurized-water reactors from its ballistic-missile submarines. That saved money but left the 858-foot, 42,000-ton...
Ten of the 12 Soryu-class boats run four Kawasaki-built Kockums Stirling engines that burn diesel with liquid oxygen, letting them stay submerged for up...
The Viking's goodbye took years. The fleet retired it in January 2009 in Jacksonville, but the VX-30 Bloodhounds at Point Mugu kept three flying...
Lockheed built the Orion from its Electra airliner after a 1957 Navy call to replace the P-2 Neptune, shortening the fuselage and adding a...
On paper, the Sierra II was a submarine hunter built to stalk America's most valuable boats in deep water and Arctic conditions, with a...
The F-14 was built to stop Soviet bombers and cruise missiles before they reached the carrier. A pilot and a radar intercept officer could...
The DF-26 alone could force U.S. carriers to operate thousands of miles offshore, where a carrier air wing can't strike without non-stealthy aerial refuelers...
The Zumwalt-class was planned at 32 ships, cut to 24, then 8, then 3 — and the overruns triggered Nunn-McCurdy along the way. Its...
The problem is heat. F-35C exhaust needs jet blast deflectors tougher than the ones installed, plus classified spaces for the aircraft's mission systems —...
Aircraft AR-1, the first F-35 in Royal Canadian Air Force markings, flew from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, on September...