Aerospace & Defense
A hypervelocity projectile is estimated at $25,000 to $85,000. A single Harpoon costs $1,400,000, and a Tomahawk the same or more. If a warship...
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A hypervelocity projectile is estimated at $25,000 to $85,000. A single Harpoon costs $1,400,000, and a Tomahawk the same or more. If a warship...
The four 1980s Iowa-class warships fired 1,083 sixteen-inch shells in the Gulf War — 759 from Missouri, 324 from Wisconsin. Against $1.7 billion in...
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 2010, three American guided-missile submarines surfaced at almost the same moment in three separate places: USS Ohio at Subic Bay in the Philippines,...
The 688I Los Angeles-Class boats were built to hunt Soviet submarines and surface ships in a war with the Soviet Navy. That war never...
The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty banned American and Russian ground-launched missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometres for more than three decades....
The Kirov scared Washington, and Reagan's Navy answered with four Iowa-class battleships it already owned. Lehman's written price — $326 million — held, the...
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...