Years ago, an unnamed aircraft carrier was conducting flight operations. Naturally everyone was focused on getting the airplanes on and off the deck, since this is what carriers…

I recall one winter many years ago, when I was a teenager, living in a small town in Ontario Canada and we spent hours tramping through the countryside…

This is the front turret face of the Yamato class battleship. The armor is 26″ thick: You will notice a nice, even, 16″ hole in it. Here is…

During my time on a carrier, we went through a hurricane not once, but twice. We were in the Atlantic returning to our home port but first, we…

Stalin asked Marshal Zhukov that very question in 1945. His answer: No. Westerns have a myth about the Red Army being this enormous inexhaustible machine that steamrolled its…

The Ohio-class nuclear submarine was designed for extended strategic deterrent patrols. Each submarine is assigned two complete crews, called the Blue crew and the Gold crew, each typically serving…