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On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
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On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
USS Tennessee was moored inboard of USS West Virginia on December 7, 1941, and survived because her neighbor absorbed the torpedoes. Two armor-piercing bombs...
Built at Mare Island under a $12.75 million cost limit, USS California displaced 32,300 tons and fired an 18,000-pound broadside. Two torpedoes and a...
HII's Newport News Shipbuilding, the only American yard that designs and builds nuclear-powered carriers, employs 26,000 shipbuilders on 550 acres along the James River...
In the pre-dawn darkness of February 1, 1944, USS Indiana changed course without telling the rest of its formation and crossed USS Washington’s bow....
Built for low-altitude nuclear attack, the B-1B became a precision bomber, close-air-support platform and long-range anti-ship missile carrier. New external pylons, digital cockpit systems...
USS Washington opened fire on the Japanese battleship Kirishima from 8,400 yards during the night of November 14–15, 1942, close enough for radar-directed 16-inch...
USS United States was designed to launch nuclear-capable bombers from a 82,000-ton flush-deck carrier. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson canceled the $189 million ship five...
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...