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After the F-111 flew 154 low-level sorties during Linebacker II in 1972, North Vietnamese forces gave it a name: "Whispering Death." At home the...
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After the F-111 flew 154 low-level sorties during Linebacker II in 1972, North Vietnamese forces gave it a name: "Whispering Death." At home the...
The Congressional Budget Office now estimates the Trump-class program at $275 billion for 15 ships, rising to $455 billion if the president's 25-ship "Golden...
The F-22 was designed to defeat Soviet fighters, but the Soviet Union collapsed before production began. Cost growth, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...
USS Jimmy Carter measures 453 feet against the 353 of her two Seawolf-class sisters. The difference is a 100-foot section inserted amidships during construction,...
On 17 May 2006, Navy divers detonated roughly 250 pounds of C4 placed throughout USS Oriskany and sank her off the coast of Pensacola,...
Operating from the Red Sea with CVW-17, Saratoga completed six transits of the Suez Canal and her air wing delivered 4,047,000 pounds of ordnance....
Shinano was commissioned on 19 November 1944 as the largest aircraft carrier ever built, displacing roughly 72,000 long tons on a converted Yamato-class hull....
The four Iowa-class battleships cost roughly $100 million apiece, fought from World War II through Desert Storm, and were reactivated three separate times —...
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...
USS Iowa was commissioned on 22 February 1943, decommissioned in 1949, recommissioned for Korea in 1951, decommissioned again in 1958, recommissioned under the Reagan...