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Genoa Naval Strength 15th Century
Genoa, 1481, by Cristoforo Grassi. A display of naval strength in a celebration of the recapture of Otranto from the Ottomans. Genoa was a major maritime power but, like Venice, was under pressure from the Ottomans, losing its bases of Amasra (1460) and Kaffa (1475) on the Black Sea, and Samos (1550) and Chios (1560) in the Aegean, although Corsica…
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USS Tennessee (BB-43)
USS Tennessee (BB-43), the lead ship of her class of battleship, was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 16th US state. During World War II in the Pacific Theater, she was damaged during the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 but was…
POSEIDON SLBMS/SSBNS
SLBM family: UGM-27A, UGM-27A, UGM-27C, UGM-73A, UGM-96A, UGM-133A The Poseidon submarine-launched ballistic missile, the follow-on system to the Polaris program, was a two-stage, solid-propellant missile designed to be launched from a submerged fleet ballistic missile (FBM) submarine. It was 2 feet longer than the 32- foot Polaris A3 missile but…
POLARIS SLBMS/SSBNS
Polaris, named after the North Star, was a two-stage ballistic missile powered by solid-fuel rocket motors and controlled by a self-contained inertial guidance system. It was designed to be launched from a submerged submarine. On July 20, 1960, Polaris became the first ballistic missile to be launched from a submarine…
The birth of the Astute
Astute was the first nuclear submarine to be designed entirely in a 3D Computer Aided Design environment. HMS Astute is the first in a program to design seven Astute-class subs to replace the Royal Navy’s aging Swiftsure and Trafalgar-class. Three similar subs (Ambush, Artful and Audacious) have already been approved…
Slava-class cruisers
The Soviet program also produced three more cruiser classes during the 1980s and early 1990s, the first being the 20-ship Sovremenny- class designed for antiship warfare. They were followed by the 13-vessel Udaloy-class, which mounts weapons arrays for use against submarines. The final group of vessels that were completed between…
HMS Elizabeth Jonas (1559)
The Elizabeth Jonas of 1559 was the first large English galleon, built in Deptford from 1557 and launched in July 1559. With a nominal burden of 800 tons, she was the largest ship built in England since Henry VIII’s prestige warship, the Henry Grace Ă Dieu. She was ordered under…