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Why the Civil War battle between the Monitor and the Merrimack was so epic
It would be the U.S. Navy’s biggest defeat until World War II and threatened to change the balance of power in American waters. The power brokers in Washington panicked. Everyone except Navy Secretary ...
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Newest USS New Jersey ready to make its debut as the 1943 model goes home
The first was a Virginia-class battleship built in Quincy, Massachusetts, commissioned in May 1906. About half the length of its namesake battleship, the original USS New Jersey mostly existed as ...
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Our Future Naval Strategy Depends on These State-of-the-Art Ships
At the end of 2024 came the christening of the USS Arkansas, a Virginia-class nuclear submarine, at Newport News Shipbuilding ...
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USS George H.W. Bush Pierside to Repair Fouled Seawater Systems
USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) cut short an underway period and returned pierside Monday evening after experiencing issues with its seawater system, a Navy official confirmed Tuesday to USNI News. Bush ...
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New Navy submarines will be named after City of Norfolk and Potomac River
A destroyer leader from 1953–1970, which served as an antisubmarine hunter-killer ship in the ... of the future USS Potomac (SSN 814) honors the river that rises in West Virginia and empties ...
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USS Iowa set to be formally commissioned
The USS Iowa will be the 24th Virginia-class submarine. The Navy plans to buy 38 submarines of that class, most of which are named after states. The submarine will be the fourth ship in the U.S ...