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China's navy flexed new muscles in the South China Sea with its first dual aircraft carrier drills
Photos show its Liaoning and Shandong aircraft carriers carrying out dual operations for the first …
Chris Panella
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China's Navy starts testing a next-generation fighter jet on one of its aircraft carriers
China's Navy took a major step towards maritime deployment of the J-35 with trial operations on the…
Chris Panella
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Ukraine's Air Force must ditch its Soviet-style approach to get the most out of F-16s
The arrival of F-16 fighters will be a big boost for Ukraine, but its Air Force must drastically ch…
Michael Peck
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China's new aircraft carrier is being tested at sea for the first time, but US carriers 'remain in an echelon of their own,' expert says
China launched the first sea trial of its most advanced aircraft carrier, but it still falls short …
Thibault Spirlet
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Destroyer captain says the US Navy's Red Sea fight is more intense than even the Tanker War in the 1980s
The commanding officer of the warship USS Mason said the counter-Houthi mission saw sustained comba…
Jake Epstein
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These secret US Navy underwater microphones built to detect Soviet submarines may be what caught the sounds of the Titan submersible imploding
SOSUS, a part of a broader anti-submarine detection system, has been listening for submarine activi…
Ryan Pickrell
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A Soviet attack submarine crashed into a US aircraft carrier 40 years ago during the Cold War. It was a bad day for the sub.
During the Cold War, the Soviet submarine K-314 crashed into the USS Kitty Hawk, an American aircra…
Ella Sherman
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China built a new modern aircraft carrier, but it's got a 'steep learning curve' to beat before it can match the US Navy
China's Fujian represents a major jump in capabilities, but its navy has much to learn before it ca…
Chris Panella
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The US Navy is getting roasted for tweeting a poster of a Russian warship and Soviet fighter jets in a 'Happy 4th of July' post
The US Pacific Fleet tweeted a photo on Tuesday featuring the silhouettes of a Kashin-class destroy…
Matthew Loh
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Japan's 'Big Whale' submarines add another weapon to bottle up China's navy
Japan's new "Big Whale" submarines carry the advanced capabilities that make them powerful threats …
Ben Brimelow
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The US and China are looking into big boxes full of missiles to give their navies new firepower
The massive expenditure of munitions in Ukraine has underscored for many military leaders that huge…
Michael Peck
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How the CIA teamed up with a reclusive billionaire for a secret mission to raise a Soviet submarine sunk 3 miles under the ocean
As Nixon resigned in disgrace, 178 Americans on the other side of the world pulled off one of the m…
Benjamin Brimelow
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Russia is building 2 more ballistic-missile subs, the latest in a long line of 'boomers' that worry its rivals
Events this year show that Russia is moving full speed ahead on its modernizing its SSBN fleet, whi…
Benjamin Brimelow
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This 'Top Gun' shot down 4 soviet jets in 30 minutes and kept it a secret for 50 years. He was just awarded the Navy Cross.
"I was just like a machine," Royce Williams now 97-year-old told NBC 7 about the 1952 areial dogfig…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Here's how a wildly outgunned US Navy pilot outfoxed one of the Soviet Union's best jets, scoring a string of kills in a legendary dogfight
Royce Williams was recently awarded the Navy Cross for his display of "extraordinary heroism" durin…
Jake Epstein
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Why the Soviet Union's nuclear-powered cruisers spooked the US into bringing back its battleships
With the possible exception of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov, no Russian warships are as i…
Benjamin Brimelow
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The Soviet Union is long gone, but its aircraft carriers live on
While the Soviet Union never did much with its carriers, a few live on as important naval assets fo…
Benjamin Brimelow
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2 US Navy SEALS lost at sea were part of a long struggle to stop Iran smuggling deadly weapons to its allies
The two Navy SEALs who were lost at sea last Thursday were part of a yearslong struggle to thwart I…
Thibault Spirlet
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The US Navy backed the hunt for Titanic in part because the explorer who found it argued it would 'drive the Soviets crazy,' book reveals
The president and his Navy secretary wanted to rattle the Soviets psychologically, and one explorer…
Ryan Pickrell
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Aircraft carriers aren't the Russian navy's only problem. It has also struggled for decades to build jets for them.
Even if Russia's sole aircraft carrier returns to service next year, it probably won't have a fully…