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The US Navy intended to build 29 Seawolf-class submarines over ten years. Budget pressure cut that to 12, and the end of the Cold...
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The US Navy intended to build 29 Seawolf-class submarines over ten years. Budget pressure cut that to 12, and the end of the Cold...
The Congressional Budget Office now estimates the Trump-class program at $275 billion for 15 ships, rising to $455 billion if the president's 25-ship "Golden...
Supporting the landings on Tinian in 1944, USS Colorado was struck 22 times by Japanese shore batteries. Forty-three of her crew were killed and...
The Navy planned twenty-nine Seawolf-class attack submarines to take on the Soviet fleet. After the Cold War ended, Congress reduced the programme to twelve,...
Thirty-seven percent of the US Navy's nuclear attack submarines cannot deploy because the shipyards cannot repair them fast enough. USS Boise, a Los Angeles-class...
USS Jimmy Carter measures 453 feet against the 353 of her two Seawolf-class sisters. The difference is a 100-foot section inserted amidships during construction,...
Marines lost almost as many dead in 76 hours at Tarawa in November 1943 as American forces lost across the six-month Guadalcanal campaign. The...
When people think of American aircraft carriers, they usually think about one of the many nuclear-powered carriers that the Navy has built over the...
USS Independence aircraft carrier: Her long career was defined by constant deployments during the most heightened parts of the Cold War–like the Cuban Missile...
USS Coral Sea was the first Navy vessel to deploy an air wing built around the F/A-18 Hornet, and the first to fire the...