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23rd April 2024
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Two aircraft carriers and five battleships were part of the Bikini Atoll Nuclear Target Fleet. Image of US Navy battleship firing. Image Credit: Creative Commons. "The Royal Navy of the…
The Seawolf class features twice as many torpedo tubes as their predecessors, despite lacking the Vertical Launching System (VLS) cruise missile firing tubes of the Los Angeles class. Seawolf-class Submarine.…
The USS South Dakota (BB-57) and USS Indiana (BB-58) were demolished and sold. Nonetheless, the USS Massachusetts (BB-59) and USS Alabama (BB-60) were each maintained as museum ships, as their…
Somewhat ironically, despite its terrible battle record, Yamato has become a symbol of Japanese national pride and intrigue. Yamato-class battleship model. Image Credit: Creative Commons. The Yamato and her sister…
The fight, which took place in late October 1944 off the coast of the Philippines, is often regarded as the greatest naval combat in history. It covered over 100,000 square…
What if China won a crucial naval engagement and took the United States' aircraft carrier? The Pentagon, Congress, the White House, and the general public would all experience terror as…
You are familiar with floating casinos. They are typically modified versions of antique riverboats. But what if I told you that the Chinese had devised a complex ploy involving a…
Instead of purchasing a U.S. Navy submarine, Australia is better off partnering with the United Kingdom and purchasing an Astute-class submarine. 030521-D-9078S-001 (May 21, 2003) -- This conceptual drawing shows…
BB-65's crew endured another storm six months after Typhoon Cobra and Okinawa. The USS Wisconsin faced typhoons twice: Evacuate before significant storms like hurricanes or typhoons, but they can't always…
Operation Katie was the program. Battleships were to use Army tactical nuclear shells. https://www.19fortyfive.com/2022/12/fire-the-nukes-could-iowa-class-battleships-fire-nuclear-bomb-bullets/ Several attempts to unretire the remaining U.S. Navy or Iowa-class battleships have succeeded. Could those battleships…
