Aerospace & Defense
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...
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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...
USS Alaska and USS Guam cost $45,616,000 each, nearly twice the price of the heavy cruiser USS Baltimore, and each carried nine 12-inch guns...
On July 29, 2026, Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force conducted its first live-fire Tomahawk launch from the destroyer JS Chokai, a Kongo-class Aegis ship commissioned...
USS West Virginia was the last completed Colorado-class battleship, armed with eight 16-inch guns and driven by turbo-electric propulsion. Sunk at Pearl Harbor, she...
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....
USS Indiana packed nine 16-inch guns and 130,000 shaft horsepower into a compact 680-foot hull. She earned nine World War II battle stars without...
USS Nevada’s $5.895 million contract produced a ten-gun battleship that survived Pearl Harbor, served 30 years and endured two atomic tests.
USS Idaho entered service in 1919 with twelve 14-inch guns and a 32,000-ton displacement. A major rebuild pushed her above 36,000 tons before she...
USS Pennsylvania entered service with twelve 14-inch guns, 34,000 horsepower and a completed cost near $15 million. The battleship served through two world wars,...
The military aircraft boneyard outside Tucson, officially the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group, covers 2,600 acres and normally holds about 3,200 aircraft, 6,100...