Aerospace & Defense
In the early 1930s the Navy’s first aircraft carriers to fly, the 785-foot helium airships USS Akron and USS Macon, carried up to five...
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In the early 1930s the Navy’s first aircraft carriers to fly, the 785-foot helium airships USS Akron and USS Macon, carried up to five...
In 2012 the Luftwaffe sent eight Eurofighter Typhoons and 150 people to Red Flag Alaska for two weeks of basic fighter maneuvers, which the...
Off Songjin in March 1952, a single North Korean 152 mm gun scored a direct hit on USS Wisconsin, wounding three sailors and nothing...
USS Scorpion (SSN-589) sent its last message on May 21, 1968, and never made Norfolk. A Court of Inquiry’s “most likely” cause, an “explosion...
At 10:52 a.m. on July 29, 1967, an electrical fault fired a Zuni rocket across the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal...
USS Illinois (BB-65), the fifth Iowa-class battleship, was laid down at Philadelphia on December 6, 1942, and would have carried nine 16-inch guns throwing...
Talk of reviving the SR-71 Blackbird, still the fastest air-breathing aircraft ever at an official Mach 3.32 and an unofficial 3.56, has grown into...
China already has a Navy bigger than America. And shipyard capacity is the reason why.
The lead boat, USS District of Columbia submarine, was laid down in June 2022 and is roughly 65 percent complete against a 2028 delivery....
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga (CV-60), 81,101 tons and 280,000 shaft horsepower, served from 1956 to 1994: she took a flight of F-8 Crusaders from...