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USS Missouri combined 58,000 tons, 212,000 shaft horsepower and nine 16-inch guns with combat service in World War II, Korea and Desert Storm. A...
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USS Missouri combined 58,000 tons, 212,000 shaft horsepower and nine 16-inch guns with combat service in World War II, Korea and Desert Storm. A...
USS Midway entered service with 18 five-inch guns, room for 120 aircraft and a 3.5-inch armored flight deck. Four steam turbines produced 212,000 shaft...
While everyone knows about the iconic F-22 Raptor and the ubiquitous F-35 Lightning II, China’s Chengdu J-20 (as well as their J-35) fifth-generation warplane...
USS North Carolina combined 44,800 tons, 121,000 horsepower and nine 16-inch guns in one treaty-era battleship. She survived a Japanese torpedo, earned 15 battle...
USS Massachusetts cost about $80 million, displaced 44,519 tons at full combat load and carried nine 16-inch guns able to throw a 24,300-pound armor-piercing...
The F-47 now has a date. Gen. Dale White said on July 29 that the fighter entered development with unprecedented maturity and would fly...
A stray Zuni rocket, unstable bombs and bypassed safety procedures nearly destroyed USS Forrestal and killed 134 sailors off Vietnam.
USS Long Beach commissioned in 1961 as the first nuclear-powered surface warship, and she looked like nothing else afloat — a slab-sided superstructure built...
Shutting down F-22 production made every remaining Raptor more expensive. Without a continuing line the program lost its economies of scale, spare parts stopped...
Americans picture a retired aircraft carrier becoming a museum, like the Midway or the Yorktown. Only a handful ever do. Most are towed to...