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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 ...
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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 ...
The Aviationist on MSN7d
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 ...
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Can A Missile Destroy An Aircraft Carrier?
The third step is to get past the aircraft carrier's air defenses, which the U.S. Navy is confident will hold most attackers ...
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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Marines deploy a second F-35B squadron to Japan in modernization drive
A fourth squadron of F-35B Lightning IIs arrived in Japan to begin a six-month deployment, as the Marine Corps continues to ...
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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 ...