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The U.S. Navy released its 30-year shipbuilding plan on Monday. The plan confirmed President Trump’s planned new battleships will be nuclear-powered. The Navy intends...
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The USS Enterprise (CVN-65) was the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. Launched in 1958, it served the U.S. Navy for 51 years. The Big...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. has canceled three major weapons programs in the past 20 years. The F-22 Raptor was capped at 187 airframes — 194 fewer...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington departed Yokosuka Naval Base on Sunday ahead of what appear to be pre-deployment sea trials and preparations...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The forthcoming USS Doris Miller (CVN-81), a Ford-class supercarrier, has been delayed by an additional 2 years. The new delivery date is February 2034,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
The U.S. Navy has delayed delivery of the USS Doris Miller (CVN-81) aircraft carrier by 2 years. The fourth Ford-class carrier will now deliver...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
On April 10, 1963, the USS Thresher (SSN-593) — the lead ship of a new class of U.S. Navy nuclear-powered fast attack submarines —...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
“This is one truly beaten-up supercarrier. My gut tells me that the USS Gerald R. Ford is in worse shape than we know in...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In May or June 2024, commercial satellite imagery showed unusual heavy crane barges and pollution-containment booms at the Wuchang Shipyard in Wuhan, China —...