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Warship Wednesday, July 21, 2021: Luckiest of the Italian Heavies
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Warship Wednesday, July 28, 2021: What a Loony Idea
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Warship Wednesday, August 4, 2021: The Grand Old Lady of the North
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45,000 tons of Courageous
The Indian Navy, which officially dates back to the 1947 split with the British Empire and carries a curious mix of traditions from the Royal Navy and doctrine from the Soviets/Russians, saw an...
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Warship Wednesday, August 11, 2021: The Guacolda-class submarines, via...
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Warship Wednesday, August 18, 2021: The Last Sub Killer
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Farewell, Broadsword/Greenhalgh
Following 16 years of service with the Royal Navy and another 26 with the Marinha do Brasil, the veteran Type 22 frigate HMS Broadsword (F 88)/fragata NAeL Greenhalgh (F 46) was retired on 10 August...
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Warship Wednesday, August 25, 2021: At Least the Middle Bit is Still There
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Just when DID the Battleship Era End?
In one of the battleship groups that I am a member of on social media, the subject of the “end of the battleship era” came about with the suggestion that, after the Battle of the North Cape in...
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One Fine Greyhound
Via the USS Kid Veterans Museum: USS KIDD (DD-661) at rest in her cradle in downtown Baton Rouge, LA, USA, where she now serves as a museum — August 2021 (Photo copyright Hunter Svetanics; used by...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 1st, 2021: Fortunate Son, the Army Flat Top Edition
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Western Approaches Scheme Sails Again
The early flight River-class offshore patrol vessel HMS Severn (P282) was decommissioned in 2017 after a planned 15-year career with the Fishery Protection Squadron in the UK’s home waters, but the...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021: Horsefly of the Fjords
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Homeward Bound, 57 Years Ago
On 14 September 1964, the ex-USS Alabama (BB-60), arrived at the entrance of Mobile Bay in her namesake state after a 5,600 nm tow from mothballs at Puget Sound, where she had rested since her...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021: Hurricane ASW
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RAN getting into the SSN Game, apparently
The Royal Australian Navy Submarine Service has been around since 1964 but the Ozzies have been running subs going back to the Great War-era British E class submarines AE1 and AE2, which we have...
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Warship Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021: Behold, the Destroyerzooka
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 13, 2021: Tokyo Express
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One Can to Quiet Them All…
Utah-based SilencerCo on Tuesday announced a new addition to its lineup, the Hybrid 46M, billed as “the world’s first and only truly modular large-bore suppressor.” Built to a design that incorporates...
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Warship Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021: The Story of an Unsinkable Carrierman, and...
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