PARIS — Pan-European missile maker MBDA is pursuing an “aggressive” development schedule for its future cruise and anti-ship ...
He was a quartermaster on the USS Wilke, a small destroyer escort. Its size was advantageous when chasing German submarines but also more vulnerable to sinking if hit. In his last days, we talked ...
Supply chain issues affecting its partners are the reason Electric Boat needs to slow down submarine production, U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2nd District, said Thursday. Courtney’s assessment came ...
European makers of submarines have benefited from the 6.8% annual increase in global military expenditures to $2.4 trillion ...
Near the end of WWI Germany, was still putting new submarines into the Atlantic. A U-boat called the SM UC-97 was ...
I think I may have submechanophobia. The very thought of being submerged underwater in a solid metal casket loaded with explosive torpedoes chills me to the core. And yet, for Adolf Hitler, ...
On Nov. 2, 1947, Howard Hughes piloted his Hughes H-4 Hercules, nicknamed the “Spruce Goose,” on its one and only flight; a ...
A military version of the new Catalina will weigh 18 tons and be used for patrols in combat zones as well as delivering and retrieving personnel in remote areas. U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command ...
The British HMS Trooper submarine was lost in 1943 with 64 men on board. A Greek-based underwater recovery team located the submarine 81 years later, finding it torn into three sections by a German ...
Fincantieri is open to all types of collaboration with the warship division of conglomerate Thyssenkrupp , but it is up to Germany to decide on a strategy for the unit, the CEO of the Italian ...
During a 2005 U.S. Navy wargame, a Gotland-class sub demonstrated its prowess by “sinking” an American aircraft carrier, ...