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On March 21, 1984, the 80,000-ton carrier USS Kitty Hawk struck the Soviet nuclear attack submarine K-314 in the Sea of Japan. When the...
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On March 21, 1984, the 80,000-ton carrier USS Kitty Hawk struck the Soviet nuclear attack submarine K-314 in the Sea of Japan. When the...
The US Navy is trading numbers for capability on purpose — every year an old boat stays running is a year of shipyard capacity...
The US Naval Institute counted 76,000 nautical miles for USS New Jersey's 1983-84 deployment. Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford covered more than 57,713...
USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Gerald R. Ford have drawn attention for long modern deployments. During World War II, USS Hornet spent 495 calendar...
USAF pilot John Rains flew an F-4C to RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall in 1968 for what he had been told was a static...
The Sea Shadow was a $200 million black program, built between 1984 and 1985 by Lockheed for DARPA and the Navy at Redwood City,...
On 26 October 2006, a Chinese Song-class diesel-electric attack submarine surfaced within five miles of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk near Okinawa. A...
Douglas built 2,960 A-4 Skyhawks between 1954 and 1979. The National Naval Aviation Museum counts 195 carrier-based Skyhawks lost to enemy fire in Vietnam...
Vosper Ltd built four Mark 5 light frigates in Britain for the Imperial Iranian Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. All four...
Meet the Hypersonic Dark Eagle: The Pentagon has long known it has fallen behind in the race for usable, reliable hypersonic weapons. As the...