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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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Here's the Russian Navy Kilo Class missile-armed diesel-electric submarine RFS Krasnodar (entered service late 2015) in waters off the UK, with the naval tug RFS Altay (middle right). Commissioned 1988, note Altay's interesting profusion of aerials for a simple 'tug'. Monitoring…
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The Royal Navy is a legendary fighting force, with a fine tradition going back centuries. Today it is front and centre of United Kingdom defence, with sailors, aviators and Royal Marines Commandos also working closely with global allies. In its twelfth edition since 2002, the ‘Warships International Fleet Review ...
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