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25th April 2024
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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…
Carrier air wings are through a new evolutionary phase; however, this does not spell the end of aircraft carriers. An F/A-18F Super Hornet Strike Fighter Squadron 103 is parked on…
In 2000, China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) had access to around one hundred different ships. The PLAN navy doubled in size between 1995 and 2005, expanding to more than…
The Kitty Hawk performed admirably overall, especially considering it was designed to be only a slight upgrade over the previous class. "The USS Kittyhawk (sic) underway in support of Operation…
The TF30 engine in the F-14, according to Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman Jr., "is certainly the worst engine-aircraft mismatch we have had in many years." Right rear…
Still, the USS Sealion was the first American submarine to sink a real battleship from the Axis. IJN Kongo sunk by USS Sea Lion. A History of the USS Sealion…
Each Walrus-class submarine may carry up to twenty torpedoes, forty mines, and one UGM-84 Harpoon surface-to-surface missile in its four 21-inch (533mm) torpedo tubes. Walrus-Class Submarine. Image Credit: Creative Commons.…
The USS New Jersey has received more decorations than any other vessel in American history. Navy. It had a dramatic impact in Vietnam in a matter of months. An overhead…
YF-17 fit. The Navy increased the plane's size. The Northrop Aviation YF-17 technology demonstrator aircraft in flight during a 1976 flight research program at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards,…
It did not mean the end for the supercarrier, and the U.S. Navy adopted the USS Forrestal class, which had more conventional proportions, just five years later. Artist's conception of…
