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USS Gerald R. Ford was commissioned in 2017 with electromagnetic catapults and new arresting gear, but without the digital maintenance, logistics, and mission-data systems...
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USS Gerald R. Ford was commissioned in 2017 with electromagnetic catapults and new arresting gear, but without the digital maintenance, logistics, and mission-data systems...
USS Nimitz was commissioned in May 1975 after seven years and almost $2 billion, and her design shaped nine more carriers through 2009. She...
During sea trials of Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier HMS Prince of Wales, both shafts were tested over thousands of nautical miles, and their vibration...
USS Nimitz flash-boils seawater in four distilling units and can make about 400,000 gallons of fresh water a day, roughly 80 gallons for each...
In May 1942 the skipper of USS Skipjack watched a Mark 14 pass under a Japanese ship. US Navy Rear Adm. Charles Lockwood’s net...
USS Parche, a Sturgeon-class submarine commissioned in 1974, earned nine Presidential Unit Citations in 30 years and is widely considered the most decorated submarine...
USS Bonhomme Richard burned at a San Diego pier from July 12 to July 16, 2020. The Navy priced repairs at as much as...
In 1974 the Hughes Glomar Explorer told the world it was mining manganese nodules. The CIA had built the ship to lift the sunken...
On March 19, 1945, a Japanese dive bomber hit USS Franklin with two bombs about 50 miles from Japan. The Essex-class carrier, “Big Ben,”...
Her overhaul was scheduled for 2016. Congestion at Norfolk pushed it back, so she made a few more patrols instead. In 2017 her diving...