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The US Navy is planning to build a dozen of the new Columbia SSBN guided-missile submarines, but it’d rather have 16. And they need...
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The US Navy is planning to build a dozen of the new Columbia SSBN guided-missile submarines, but it’d rather have 16. And they need...
Chester Nimitz took command of the Pacific Fleet weeks after Pearl Harbor — when American naval power was at its lowest point in history....
The Iran Crisis Isn’t Exactly Over: The U.S. Navy has a near-perfect record of shooting down drones and missiles at sea. Oil tanker crews...
The aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is over 50 years old and on its third ‘final’ voyage. The Navy keeps canceling the retirement because the...
China plans to build six more aircraft carriers in the next decade, bringing its fleet to nine. It has the world’s largest shipyards —...
The U.S. Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln, has enjoyed a successful Iran war. The operational tempo and sortie rate have been high....
During the Operation Epic Fury in Iran, which now appears to have been temporarily paused with a two-week ceasefire, the U.S. reportedly used a...
The Seawolf-class nuclear attack submarines are some of the most valuable assets in the U.S. Navy. Built at the end of the Cold War,...
The USS Scorpion, a Skipjack-class nuclear attack submarine (SSN-589), was an American nuclear submarine that mysteriously sank in May 1968, during a deployment to...
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) has been modernizing and expanding at an astonishing rate. Its current inventory dwarfs the U.S. Navy in sheer...