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The historic battleship USS Texas (BB-35), a veteran of both World Wars, is undergoing a massive $75 million restoration in ...
Newshounds sniffing around the Norfolk (Va.) Navy Yard last week reported that the old (1911), 26,000-ton battleship Wyoming was being furbished up with new guns and armor, would be returned to ...
The chief of the US Navy defended the service’s plans to scrap nine relatively new warships in the coming fiscal year even as the service tries to keep up with China’s growing fleet. Three of ...
The next year, EPA exempted Sinkex from federal toxic pollution laws, and the Navy resumed sinking old ships — at least 50 nautical miles from shore and at least 6,000 feet deep.
The U.S. Navy wants to retire four ships of the controversial Littoral Combat Ship class, including one ship that is just six years old. The four ships all have at least 10, if not 20 years of ...
Summary and Key Points: This summer, the U.S. Navy conducted SINKEX drills, where three decommissioned warships were sunk during live-fire exercises, including the USS Dubuque and USS Tarawa ...
Old blueprints and other specifications for the ships (if they still exist) would have to be produced from Navy archives, and the parts made quickly. Historical // Getty Images Sixteen-inch shells ...
The stern of the Navy’s century-old model of the battleship USS South Carolina, which was moved in its case at the Washington Navy Yard in December as the Navy prepares for a new national museum ...