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Navy Nearly Got A Single-Seat A-6 Intruder Instead Of The A-7 Corsair II
By Emma Helfrich / Updated May 9, 2022
The Navy’s First Medical Ship In 35 Years Will Be Unlike Any Before It
By Howard Altman / Updated Apr 29, 2022
Flying Boats Flew Japan’s Little-Known Follow-On Raid On Pearl Harbor
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 8, 2021
Life On The High Seas Aboard A Tin Can Destroyer During The Cold War
By Juan Rivera / Updated Oct 21, 2021
This Spherical Manned Airship Was Tested By The Navy As An Eye In The Sky
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jul 20, 2021
China Tested An AI-Controlled Submarine-Hunting Underwater Drone A Decade Ago: Report
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jul 9, 2021
An Air Cushion Patrol Seaplane Was Once In The Works With The U.S. And Japan
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 18, 2021
The Soviet-Era Hurricane High-Speed Missile Boat Had Absolutely Gargantuan Hydrofoils
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 12, 2021
The Navy Concluded Transmedium Flying Submersibles Were Possible A Decade Ago
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jun 12, 2021
USS Sealion Was The Navy’s Unique Helicopter-Accommodating Submarine
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 12, 2021
The Oddly Shaped USS Grayback Was A Cold War Submarine Like No Other
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 14, 2021
The Navy Got Its Hands On Its First Operational F-4 Phantom Sixty Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 30, 2020
Historic Indian Carrier Set To Be Scrapped After 58 Years Of Service With Two Navies
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Her Majesty’s Death Ray: How The AIM-9L Sidewinder Vanquished The Argentine Air Force
By Rowland White / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Making Steam: The Life And Times Of A U.S. Navy Chief Engineer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
US Navy Aircraft Carriers Had Escalators Just Like At The Mall
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
7 Revolutionary Hardware Changes the US Navy Should Make in the Trump Era
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The Revolutionary War Gave Birth To The Age Of Naval Mine Warfare
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 2, 2020
This Nuclear-Capable 1950s Missile Once Delivered the U.S. Mail
By Chris Cantle / Updated Jul 2, 2020
How The Experimental USS Narwhal Ended Up Being The Navy’s Stealthiest Nuclear Submarine
By Aaron Amick / Updated Apr 30, 2020
The Real Story of the USS Ponce as the American Sea Base Sails Into Retirement
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 27, 2020
This Is The World’s Fastest Production Submarine’s Crazy Molten Metal Cooled Reactor
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 19, 2020
This Massive Naval Exercise In 1989 Was The Pinnacle Of U.S. Cold War Maritime Might
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
This Haunting WWII Photo Sums Up Our Veterans’ Perseverance And Sacrifice
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
Coast Guard Cutters Once Carried Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles And They Could Again
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019
The Navy’s Oldest Attack Submarine Goes Out On Top After Circumnavigating The Globe
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 6, 2019
The Harrowing Tale Of The Nuke-Laden Russian Typhoon Class Sub That Almost Sunk In 1991
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 17, 2019
The Striking And Fast Superyacht ‘Yaz’ Was Born From A 40 Year Old Dutch Frigate’s Hull
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 17, 2018
WWII Vintage USS Oak Ridge Is Being Auctioned Off, Maybe The Navy Should Buy It Back
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 6, 2018
The Nuclear Bomber Carrying USS United States Was Going To Be America’s First Supercarrier
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 10, 2018
Navy’s Blue Ridge Class Command Ships Once Had This Wacky Air Defense Missile System
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 25, 2018
The Navy’s Giant Hangar That Housed The Hindenburg Hides A Mock Aircraft Carrier Inside
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 18, 2018
A U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Once Submerged In A River To Ride Out A Hurricane
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 29, 2017