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Here's HMS St Albans outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday morning. One of the few remaining @RoyalNavy Duke Class (Type 23) frigates in service, she was deploying allegedly on Towed Array Patrol Ship (TAPS) duty.
That means using a sonar reeled out at distance behind
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A sailor tests a Mk 38 25mm gun during a live fire exercise aboard Wasp Class amphibious assault ship USS Essex earlier this week in the Pacific. Photo: MCSS Kenyatta Headley/US Navy.
Did Adolf Hitler escape to South America in this U-boat? That's one of the questions considered by host @IBallantyn and guest @Roger_Moorhouse during a dive into the war between the Allies and German submarines in WW2 for our new podcast episode: 'Churchill’s Peril: U-boat
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This image shows U-977 off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, being consigned forever to the deep during a weapons test in November 1946, courtesy of an improved steam torpedo fired by USS Atule (left of image). It took ten seconds for the U-boat to be gone after being hit amidships at a
The Damen Landing Ship Transport (LST) 100 design has been selected by the USA's Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) to fulfil a need for the US Marines to utilise more, smaller vessels as they gear up for a island war in Indo-Pacific at some future date.
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