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Seaman First Class Calvin Graham Was 12 Years Old Aboard the 45,233-Ton Battleship USS South Dakota at the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 14-15 November 1942. Japanese Shellfire Killed 40 of Her Crew That Night.
6+ hour, 55+ min ago (267+ words) USS South Dakota lost electrical power, took repeated hits, and did not score. Twelve miles away, the USS Washington sank the Kirishima — the only one-on-one battleship kill of the American war....
A Boeing KC-46 Pegasus Boom Jammed in the Receptacle of an F-22 Raptor 100 Miles Off Virginia on July 8, 2025, Struck the Tanker After the Aircraft Separated, and Broke Off Into the Atlantic. The Air Force Put the Damage at $9,980,000.
9+ hour, 8+ min ago (684+ words) On May 12 the Air Force and Boeing announced a readiness plan with an unusual first item: five early-production KC-46s that were not due in operational service until 2031 will instead be broken up for spare parts and test support. The Air…...
The German WWII Panzer VIII Maus Tannk Was Specified at 100 Tonnes, Redrawn at 120, and Came Out Near 190. Hitler Ordered 5 Before the Design Was Finished and Wanted 10 a Month. Germany Completed 2 Prototypes, and Neither Ever Fought.
9+ hour, 25+ min ago (547+ words) The Soviets found both Maus tank wrecks, took the good turret off one and the good hull off the other, and welded them into a single working tank. It is still on display....
The F-111B Was Supposed to Be a US Navy Aircraft Carrier Fighter. It Exceeded 80,000 Pounds, Needed a Wingspan 7 Feet Wider Than the Air Force Version Just to Slow Down Enough to Land, and the Navy Walked Away in May 1968.
20+ hour, 42+ min ago (485+ words) McNamara ordered the Air Force and Navy to buy the same aircraft to save money. The two services needed opposite things, and the compromise could not land on a US Navy aircraft carrier. That's why the F-111B failed....
The US Navy's New $23,400,000,000 Nuclear Trump-Class Battleship Keeps Getting Called Obsolete Thanks to Drones. Chinese Military Experts Just Tested That Theory Out
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (487+ words) The Trump-class battleship was ridiculed as a relic. The first serious technical argument for its guns came out of a People's Liberation Army naval academy journal....
45,000-Ton US Navy Battleship USS Alabama Was Towed Through the Panama Canal With 11 Inches of Clearance on Each Side. She Carried 9 16-Inch Guns Firing 2,700-Pound Shells, Earned 9 Battle Stars Across the Pacific, and Never Lost a Sailor to Enemy Fire.
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (717+ words) More than 3,000 workers in Norfolk built the battleship USS Alabama around the clock and finished in 30 months — nine months ahead of schedule. She was decommissioned after four and a half years....
Russia Built a Titanium Hulled 'Golden Fish' Nuclear Submarine That Could Hit 44 Knots That Had 2 Reactors. The Goal Was to Hunt US Navy Aircraft Carriers
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (396+ words) At full speed the fastest submarine ever built, the K-222 (also known as the Papa-class or Project 661) was so loud it announced itself. The thing it relied on to escape pursuit was the thing that told pursuers where it was....
China Bolted an Electromagnetic Railgun to the Bow of a Type 072III Landing Ship in December 2017 and Has Kept It at Sea Ever Since. The US Navy Spent About $500,000,000 Over 15 Years, Never Got Its Gun to Sea at All, and Cancelled the Program in July 2021.
1+ day, 9+ hour ago (1350+ words) The American railgun needed a new barrel after about two dozen shots. Chinese researchers claim 120 consecutive rounds without a failure. That one number is the whole argument....
100,000-Ton US Navy Nuclear Aircraft Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Could Be Out Of Action for a Long Time
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (530+ words) The tell is not the rust. It is that the USS Abraham Lincoln might relocate to Bremerton, which means Puget Sound, which means a long time in dry dock....
81 Years Ago, US Army General George Patton's Line on 'Attack and Attack and Attack' Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History
2+ day, 6+ min ago (461+ words) The line has never been traced to a speech, a date, a location, or anything Patton wrote. The version that is well attested says almost the same thing. Patton lived for the attack....