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An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer carries roughly 90 to 96 missiles in its vertical launch cells, and when they are gone it has to withdraw...
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An Arleigh Burke-class destroyer carries roughly 90 to 96 missiles in its vertical launch cells, and when they are gone it has to withdraw...
HNLMS Walrus was a 2,800-ton Dutch diesel boat costing somewhere between $340,000,000 and half a billion — less than one of the Aegis escorts...
The Pratt & Whitney TF30 began in 1958 as a proposal for a short-haul jet airliner. It ended up in the F-14 Tomcat because...
The familiar version is that the US Navy was so embarrassed when a Swedish submarine reached a firing position on USS Ronald Reagan that...
An Iowa-class battleship's 16-inch guns threw a 2,700-pound shell about 24 miles. In the 1980s the US Navy pulled out four 5-inch mounts and...
In September 2013 the American attack submarine USS Dallas got inside the protective screen around the Royal Navy carrier HMS Illustrious in the Gulf...
The F-22 Raptor was built so that American pilots could kill enemy fighters before those pilots ever saw them, at nearly $143,000,000 per aircraft....
The EA-18G Growler is a modified F/A-18F Super Hornet, and the airframe alone runs about $67,000,000. What makes it a Growler is bolted on...
"Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best." Chester Nimitz said that, and he was given the chance to prove...
Australia's Collins-class submarines were noisy, unreliable and a national embarrassment for most of the 1990s. Then HMAS Waller went to US-led war games off...