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58,000-Ton US Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Kentucky: $55 Million Spent, She Was 72 Percent Complete and Used for ‘Parts’

Floated out unfinished in 1950 so USS Missouri could be repaired, torn loose by Hurricane Hazel in 1954 and studied as a $178 million...

Harry J. KazianisOctober 2, 2026

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The Navy Built Its Last Battleship in 1944. Now It Wants 15 New Ones Armed With Hypersonics Instead of 16-Inch Guns

The Iowas came back in the 1980s for $435 million each with 32 Tomahawks bolted on deck. USS Zumwalt traded its guns for 12...

Harry J. KazianisOctober 2, 2026

USS California US Navy Battleship Creative Commons

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32,300 Tons, 12 14-Inch Guns, 16 5-Inch Guns: The US Navy Rebuilt USS California for 25 Months After Pearl Harbor. She Fired 63 Shells in History’s Last Battleship Duel

The Tennessee-class ship USS California cost $12.75 million to build and sold for $859,999 in 1959. Four of her crew earned the Medal of...

Harry J. KazianisOctober 2, 2026

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USS Idaho Carried 12 14-Inch Guns for 27 Years and Never Fired One at a Battleship. Her One Chance Was Yamato in April 1945, and Carrier Aircraft Sank It First

The US Navy bought the New Mexico-class battleship USS Idaho for $7.25 million in 1914. She carried twelve 14-inch guns for 27 years, earned...

Harry J. KazianisOctober 2, 2026

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44,800-Ton USS Washington Fired 75 Sixteen-Inch Shells at Another Battleship From Under 5 Miles. Not 1 Japanese Shell Hit Her Hull

The 728-foot North Carolina-class battleship fired a 24,300-pound broadside from nine 16-inch guns. She earned 13 battle stars, survived a 1944 collision with USS...

Harry J. KazianisOctober 2, 2026

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Forget the SR-71 Blackbird: The US Navy’s F-14D Tomcat Fighter Might Make a Comeback and Fly Again

No new parts may be built under the bill, so F-14D Tomcat restorers must work from Navy stocks. The F110 engines are the easy...

Isaac SeitzOctober 1, 2026

MEDITERRANEAN SEA (July 20, 2017) The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) sails through the Mediterranean Sea in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The ship and its carrier strike group are conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Zachary Wickline/Released)

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Russia Was 40 Percent Done With a Nimitz-Class Style Aircraft Carrier That Might Have Been 94,000-Tons and Had 4 Nuclear Reactors When It Was Scrapped

Laid down at Mykolaiv in 1988 beside the future Liaoning, the 1,054-foot aircraft carrier Ulyanovsk had a 70%-complete hull by 1992 when Russia told...

Isaac SeitzOctober 1, 2026

USS Saratoga of the Forrestal-Class Aircraft Carriers

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1,000-Pound Bombs Made in 1953 Turned a 75,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Fire Into a Catastrophe. 7 of the Korean War-Era Bombs Were Among the First to Detonate

Korean War-era 1,000-pound bombs with weakened casings cooked off within minutes, and crews fighting with water spread the burning fuel. The aircraft carrier USS...

Brandon WeichertOctober 1, 2026

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The US Navy Began Building Its $22,000,000,000 Constellation Frigate at 87% of the Blueprints. A Year After Killing It, the Navy Is Buying a Coast Guard Cutter

Canceled last November after a 20-ship, $22 billion plan collapsed, the frigate is being replaced by an upgraded Coast Guard Legend-class cutter. HII has...

Brandon WeichertOctober 1, 2026

USS Enterprise Nuclear Aircraft Carrier US Navy

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A Rack of 500-Pound Bombs Blew a 22-by-18-Foot Hole in Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Beside a Tanker Holding 6,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel. She Was Back at Sea the Same Year

The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier fire burned more than three hours 70 miles from Pearl Harbor and knocked out the ship's own firefighting gear....

Brandon WeichertOctober 1, 2026

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58,000-Ton US Navy Iowa-Class Battleship USS Kentucky: $55 Million Spent, She Was 72 Percent Complete and Used for ‘Parts’

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The Navy Built Its Last Battleship in 1944. Now It Wants 15 New Ones Armed With Hypersonics Instead of 16-Inch Guns

Aerospace & Defense

32,300 Tons, 12 14-Inch Guns, 16 5-Inch Guns: The US Navy Rebuilt USS California for 25 Months After Pearl Harbor. She Fired 63 Shells in History’s Last Battleship Duel

Aerospace & Defense

USS Idaho Carried 12 14-Inch Guns for 27 Years and Never Fired One at a Battleship. Her One Chance Was Yamato in April 1945, and Carrier Aircraft Sank It First

Aerospace & Defense

44,800-Ton USS Washington Fired 75 Sixteen-Inch Shells at Another Battleship From Under 5 Miles. Not 1 Japanese Shell Hit Her Hull

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Forget the SR-71 Blackbird: The US Navy’s F-14D Tomcat Fighter Might Make a Comeback and Fly Again

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Russia Was 40 Percent Done With a Nimitz-Class Style Aircraft Carrier That Might Have Been 94,000-Tons and Had 4 Nuclear Reactors When It Was Scrapped

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1,000-Pound Bombs Made in 1953 Turned a 75,000-Ton US Navy Aircraft Carrier USS Forrestal Fire Into a Catastrophe. 7 of the Korean War-Era Bombs Were Among the First to Detonate

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The US Navy Began Building Its $22,000,000,000 Constellation Frigate at 87% of the Blueprints. A Year After Killing It, the Navy Is Buying a Coast Guard Cutter

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A Rack of 500-Pound Bombs Blew a 22-by-18-Foot Hole in Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise Beside a Tanker Holding 6,000 Gallons of Jet Fuel. She Was Back at Sea the Same Year

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