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The Cruiser Survived Two Atomic Tests. Why Couldn’t Prinz Eugen Be Saved From a Leak?
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On the morning of December 21, 1946, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, anchored in Kwajalein Lagoon, settled noticeably by the stern and began to list. Water ...

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A Floating Hangar for Uncrewed Submarines: What China’s Second Mystery Ship Reveals
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A second unusually configured Chinese vessel has appeared in Guangzhou, which Western analysts assess to be a mothership for large uncrewed underwater ...

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The Submarine That Hunted Herring, Not Ships
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Imagine a combat submarine with its torpedo tubes removed and portholes installed in their place. Its crew of naval sailors suddenly found themselves sharing ...

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War 20XX: A Fast-Reloading Armory Ship
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  The recent U.S.-Iran war clearly highlighted a major problem facing modern navies: the lack of an effective system for replenishing ammunition on ...

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Vladimir Nagirnyak. “A Shameful Act of Brutal Piracy on the High Seas”
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An article by Vladimir Nagirnyak from the WEARSPOT website, dated July 14, 2016.   Contents: At the outset of both world wars of the 20th ...

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The Secrets of Soviet Aircraft Carriers: What Prevented the USSR from Carrying Out Projects 71 and 72, and How Close Did It Come to Building Them?
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Discussions about aircraft carriers usually remind me of the joke about the gift for Cheburashka: “Let’s give Cheburashka a book!” “No, we don’t need to give ...

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Vladimir Nagirnyak. The Long Hunt for the "Steel Shark"
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An article by Vladimir Nagirnyak from the WARSPOT website, dated July 21, 2016. During the Battle of the Atlantic, there were numerous skirmishes ...

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Overhyped. Five Overrated Examples of Soviet Military Equipment
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In this new article, I invite you to take a different look at Soviet military equipment, which the press and popular literature traditionally refer to as ...

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China Is Building Its First Supercarrier: Type 004 Could Be the Biggest Leap for the Chinese Navy in 30 Years
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On satellite images of the Dalian shipyard, an enormous hull is becoming increasingly recognizable. A year ago, individual sections of the future vessel still ...

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Heirs of the Type XXI: What the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain Really Inherited from German Submarines
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In May 1945, Germany’s submarine war ended in complete defeat. The Allies controlled the Atlantic, German shipyards were being devastated by air raids, and the ...

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