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The battlecruiser was supposed to be extinct after 1945 — until the Soviet Union built four nuclear-powered Kirov-class giants, the largest surface warships since...
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The battlecruiser was supposed to be extinct after 1945 — until the Soviet Union built four nuclear-powered Kirov-class giants, the largest surface warships since...
The F-14 Tomcat was never meant to fly on the TF30. Designed for the Pratt & Whitney F401, it got the TF30 as a...
The MQ-25 Stingray just cleared Milestone C, moving the world's first carrier-based autonomous aircraft toward the fleet. It isn't a fighter or a bomber...
The SSN(X) is supposed to be the deadliest attack submarine ever — Seawolf's firepower, Virginia's stealth, Columbia's endurance in one hull. It's also slipped...
The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the most heavily armed surface warships America ever built — 122 missile cells each. Congress forced the Navy to keep...
The Columbia-class submarine is built around two ideas: carry the most destructive arsenal America fields, and never be found while carrying it. Sixteen Trident...
On a spec sheet the USS Gerald R. Ford beats China's new Fujian aircraft carrier on nearly every number — bigger, nuclear, more aircraft,...
China launches a carrier every 20 months. America just delayed its newest one to 2034 — because the shipyard physically can't fit it —...
China operates three aircraft carriers today, but the Pentagon believes Beijing is building toward nine by 2035 — the fastest carrier build-up in the...
Under a revised AUKUS deal confirmed May 30, Australia will buy three secondhand Virginia-class submarines from the US Navy instead of the mix of...