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At Truk in 1944 she became the only Iowa to fire her main guns at enemy warships. Off Vietnam she fired 5,688 16-inch shells...
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At Truk in 1944 she became the only Iowa to fire her main guns at enemy warships. Off Vietnam she fired 5,688 16-inch shells...
West Point 1909, the 1912 Olympics, II Corps after Kasserine, Seventh Army across Sicily, a year sidelined for slapping two soldiers, a fake army...
Built to hunt Soviet submarines, 24 of the ships got 61-cell vertical launchers in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Ticonderoga cruisers borrowed the...
The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...
The 85% titanium skin broke drill bits every 17 holes and could only be washed with distilled water. Lockheed has teased an unmanned SR-72...
Canceled last November after a 20-ship, $22 billion plan collapsed, the frigate is being replaced by an upgraded Coast Guard Legend-class cutter. HII has...
Technical details are classified and Boeing's own image is likely provisional, but the F/A-XX jet is expected to shed the tail fins of the...
Tail number 844 flew the last SR-71 sortie anyone has flown, then went on a stand near the Armstrong Flight Research Center and stayed...
Twenty-five years on, 9/11's lessons are still contested, except the simplest: the US mistook quiet for peace. A RAND strategist argues it is doing...
Project 705 was built from a titanium alloy that cannot be welded in open air, so the Soviets constructed a sealed hall filled with...