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How One Pilot Sunk Two Aircraft Carriers At the Battle of Midway
(The SBD also had the lowest loss ratio of *any* U.S. carrier-based aircraft.) 5,936 SBDs were built, with fewer than 30 ...
China Has Unlocked the Secret to Winning the Aircraft Carrier Race—And That’s a Direct Threat to America
America’s newest aircraft carrier is the USS Gerald R. Ford, the only non- Nimitz class ship in the fleet and the first of ...
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Why Aircraft Carriers Are Becoming Obsolete
the losses in terms of men and materiel would be nowhere near the losses if an aircraft carrier were severely damaged or even sunk. Military planners and strategists can no longer ignore the ...
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It’s a Miracle Russia’s Aircraft Carrier Hasn’t Sunk Yet
From its inception, the Soviet-era aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was fraught with design complications. Unlike its ...
The one-of-a-kind ex-USS John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier is heading to the scrapyard, but a new JFK flattop is coming
See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.