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The U.S. Navy can't build nuclear attack submarines fast enough, and it keeps spending its most valuable hulls on jobs a quieter, cheaper boat...
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The U.S. Navy can't build nuclear attack submarines fast enough, and it keeps spending its most valuable hulls on jobs a quieter, cheaper boat...
The USS Kitty Hawk arrived in 1961 at a hinge moment — the supercarrier had just been born, and nuclear power was about to...
Rank the world's navies by the sheer number of ships they float, counting a 100,000-ton supercarrier and a 200-ton patrol boat as one each,...
USS Midway entered service eight days after Japan's surrender, missing the war that shaped her by a week. Instead of a quiet career, she...
In 1942, the U.S. built an aircraft carrier in just over 20 months, then made two dozen more. Today a single shipyard builds every...
The F-4 Phantom was built to kill Soviet bombers at long range with missiles — so the Navy left off the gun. Then Vietnam...
Sweden didn't build the Gotland class to chase aircraft carriers across oceans. It built three small, quiet submarines for the Baltic — and in...
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...
USS Long Beach entered service as the world’s first nuclear-powered surface warship and sailed around the world without refueling. Decades later, the stripped, defueled...
A Belgian joint venture, BeHydro, has earned the world's first Type Approval Certificate from Lloyd's Register for a marine engine that runs on 100...