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USS Jimmy Carter measures 453 feet against the 353 of her two Seawolf-class sisters. The difference is a 100-foot section inserted amidships during construction,...
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USS Jimmy Carter measures 453 feet against the 353 of her two Seawolf-class sisters. The difference is a 100-foot section inserted amidships during construction,...
USS Virginia entered the Navy's nuclear-ship recycling program at Puget Sound in 1999 and was taken apart. One piece of her survived: a 43,000-pound...
General Dynamics Electric Boat received the largest award in its 127-year history on July 29, 2026: a $76.6 billion package that includes $42.1 billion...
The 1978 CVV medium carrier displaced 62,500 tons and was meant to carry as many as 65 aircraft. The Carter administration asked $1.6 billion...
USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
Eight months and 46,500 miles from home, USS Enterprise missed the dredged channel into Naval Air Station Alameda and drove onto a mud bar...
On November 2, 1985, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier struck Bishop Rock at Cortes Bank, about a hundred miles from San Diego. Contemporary...
Five retired U.S. aircraft carriers became famous for one-cent disposal contracts. The penny was not a valuation of the ship. It reflected an arrangement...
The USS George Washington strike group came through the Luzon Strait on July 22, and two days later Chinese vessels were using water cannons...
The Soviet Union completed four nuclear-powered Kirov-class battlecruisers, and as of this summer their fates diverge completely. One went for dismantlement under a five-billion-ruble...