The U.S. Navy has been known to learn survivability by sinking a ship on occasion. A sinking exercise, SINKEX in military jargon, involves using a former hull as a full-spectrum target to allow crews ...
The USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a Gearing-class destroyer, carried out numerous missions for the US Navy and NASA during its ...
Out of 7,013 Hueys deployed to Vietnam, 3,305 were destroyed—a staggering 48% loss rate. The iconic "sound of our war"[...] ...
Introduced in the 1950s and later deployed over Vietnam, the Douglas B-66 Destroyer carried a name that suggested brute force ...