China is building its carrier air power. But Britannia still rules the waves for now
And the dual-carrier operations in the South China Sea, involving the ex-Soviet flattop Liaoning and her Chinese-built sister ...
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China's Submarines Keep Proving They Could Sink a Navy Aircraft Carrier
In 2006, a Chinese Song-class submarine stealthily surfaced within five miles of the USS Kitty Hawk during a U.S. Navy ...
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China has three carriers at sea, bracketing Taiwan and challenging the US Navy
Shandong was in the South China Sea west of Taiwan with her escorts ... s second carrier power – pulling past the two-flattop Royal Navy and Indian navy but still sailing in the wake of the ...
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How China Strengthens Japan’s Navy
and China’s tactics supply the incentive to do so. Lord Nelson cracked wise about Great Britain’s blockade of France during the Napoleonic Wars. Nelson conceded that Royal Navy ships took a ...
With new stealth fighter, China displays ambitions to challenge U.S.
China debuted the J-35A jet at an airshow that was attended by a senior Russian national security official, underlining ...
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China’s Falkland Islands Lesson
You can bet strategists in China are monitoring events in the South ... both performed miserably at finding and sinking enemy submarines. A Royal Navy nuclear-powered attack submarine made short ...
5 Air Forces That Surprisingly Lack Multirole Fighter Jets
Perhaps the most surprising country that doesn't operate fighter jets is Mexico. Since the 1980s, the Northrop F-5E light ...
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HMS Agamemnon: The New Powerhouse Astute-Class Submarine Can Be Explained in 1 Word
As the Royal Navy modernizes its fleet, Agamemnon will bolster Britain’s underwater capabilities, providing a potent deterrent in potential conflicts against adversaries like China or Russia.
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The Maritime Convoys of 2027: Supporting Taiwan in Contested Seas
The Battle of ... America’s Navy must quickly relearn. LT Nathan Sicheri commissioned from Virginia Tech NRTOC as a surface ...
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The Shipwreck Detective
Nigel Pickford has spent a lifetime searching for sunken treasure—without leaving dry land.
A DNA test told me I’m related to an explorer eaten by his crew
The disappearance of HMS Erebus is a tale shrouded in mystery, but one man has discovered a personal connection to its ...
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The not-quite-aircraft-carriers that the US Navy and other militaries use to carry jets, tanks, and troops into battle
Today, eight countries — the US, UK, France, Spain, Italy, India, Russia, and China — operate flattops ... In 1998, the British Royal Navy commissioned HMS Ocean, which was designed to carry ...