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National Security Journal on MSN5d
The Walls are Closing in on the U.S. Navy’s Aircraft Carrier?
The aircraft carrier, now just over one hundred years old, is one of the most resilient weapons of the modern era. More than ...
Can A Missile Destroy An Aircraft Carrier?
At 1,098 feet long and with a flight deck of 256 feet, these massive aircraft ships are propelled by two nuclear reactors and ...
Rex's Hangar on MSN2d
This Little Fighter Rewrote the Rules of Carrier Warfare
Today we're looking at the A5M, the aircraft that modernised the air force of the Imperial Japanese Navy and paved the way ...
The Aviationist on MSN6d
Japan Considering Naming its GCAP Fighter After the WW2-Era A7M ‘Reppu’: Reports
The A7M Reppu (Strong Gale) was conceived to succeed the legendary A6M Zero, but it never entered service. Reports from Japan ...
The National Interest on MSN8d
How an Aircraft Carrier’s Air Wing Works
An aircraft carrier airwing’s mainstay will always be its fighter jets, through which the carrier battle group can project force and take the fight to an adversary.
On a sunken WWII aircraft carrier, experts find a mural, wrecked planes and a station wagon
Three miles down, cameras glimpsed the shattered interior of the USS Yorktown, sunk in the Pacific Ocean in the 1942 Battle ...
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Japan’s Battleship Yamato Is a Warning to Modern Naval Planners
But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur. Launched in 1940 and commissioned into the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN), the battleship Yamato stands as the ...
NOAA needs help identifying car found in WWII shipwreck
Now, NOAA researchers want the public’s help to identify the vehicle inside the remains of the USS Yorktown. The discovery ...