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Eight months into the Iran War, with sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln running low on some food, the Pentagon has doubled hostile fire pay...
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Eight months into the Iran War, with sailors aboard USS Abraham Lincoln running low on some food, the Pentagon has doubled hostile fire pay...
The SR-71 Blackbird’s two Pratt & Whitney J58 engines produced 32,500 pounds of thrust each and pushed the jet to Mach 3.2, but no...
American-flagged vessels account for less than 0.3 percent of the shipping carrying U.S. trade, and the country graduates several hundred naval architects a year...
Destroyers are specialists, frigates are generalists, and the US Navy currently has none of the latter. Sean Spoonts, a Navy veteran, traces how that...
The F-35 Will Soon Have the AIM-260 Missile: For all of the impressive capabilities of the Lockheed Martin “Skunk Works” F-35 Lightning II 5th...
Christian D. Orr revisits why the F-22 Raptor line, closed by Bob Gates in 2009 at 187 of 381 planned jets, will not restart:...
In 1949 the Navy laid the keel of USS United States, a 65,000-ton supercarrier. Five days later Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled it in...
Tirpitz's "risk theory" was not a plan to defeat Britain but to make defeating Germany so costly that Britain would seek accommodation. It required...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
Let Trump be Trump—which he will be anyway. Even if his peace efforts fail (which is entirely possible), American interests will be protected, and...