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When looking at the combined decline of the Ohio-class SSGNs and the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, that’s 1,316 missile-launch positions taken off the board without any...
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When looking at the combined decline of the Ohio-class SSGNs and the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, that’s 1,316 missile-launch positions taken off the board without any...
GAO put the cost of reactivating and modernizing all four Iowa-class battleships at about $1.7 billion. Only two reached the Persian Gulf. USS Missouri...
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...
USS Wisconsin was built in Philadelphia in 1,177 days and launched on December 7, 1943, two years after Pearl Harbor. The Iowa-class battleship screened...
On July 29, 2026, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force conducted its first live-fire Tomahawk launch from the destroyer JS Chokai, a Kongo-class Aegis ship commissioned...
The four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines leaving service by the end of the decade carry 154 Tomahawks each, and they have been a favorite of...
More than a thousand Tomahawks have gone into Iran — the largest expenditure in the weapon's history, against an adversary with broken defenses. The...
The Pentagon is pouring billions into rebuilding America's Tomahawk stockpile, and none of it can buy the one thing the arithmetic demands. Behind the...
In the 1970s, Congress mocked the Navy's new Spruance-class destroyers as "empty hulls", warships the size of a light cruiser that went to sea...
The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the most heavily armed surface warships America ever built — 122 missile cells each. Congress forced the Navy to keep...