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The Navy spent fourteen years trying to turn its last unfinished Iowa-class battleship into a carrier, an anti-aircraft ship, then the missile ship BBG-1,...
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The Navy spent fourteen years trying to turn its last unfinished Iowa-class battleship into a carrier, an anti-aircraft ship, then the missile ship BBG-1,...
For decades, strategists have warned that the aircraft carrier is going the way of the battleship — too big, too costly, too easy to...
Sixteen years from first steel to the fleet — for a ship America once built in two. Follow the Kennedy through the yard and...
In March 2026 a U.S. fast-attack submarine sank the Iranian frigate IRIS Dena with a single Mark 48, the first American submarine torpedo sinking...
The Navy didn't want them. The fleet mocked them. Then six of the little carriers found themselves alone in the path of Japan's main...
Twice in thirteen months, Iran has forced the Pentagon to drain scarce interceptor stocks in a theater Washington calls secondary. Latham's argument: Beijing is...
The USS Gerald R. Ford has begun a planned incremental availability (PIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard that is expected to last around 18 months....
Tehran treats the Strait of Hormuz as non-negotiable, Holmes writes, and no air campaign eliminates every missile. That leaves four courses: walk away and...
The famous number in America’s submarine crisis is the construction gap. But a large share of the boats the Navy already owns cannot go...
The Zumwalt-class was meant to revolutionize naval warfare: 32 stealth destroyers built around a 155mm Advanced Gun System. Costs collapsed the fleet to three...