aircraft carriers
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Famed WW2 Aircraft Carrier Torpedoed In 1942 Found Miles Deep In Pacific Ocean
After 77 years, the wreck of the USS Hornet has finally been found, lying more than three miles deep in South Pacific waters. The storied aircraft carrier — sunk by Japanese torpedoes in 1942 with the loss of 140 men — played a critical role during the Second World War, most famously in the Doolittle…
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This Is What The Jail On An Aircraft Carrier Looks Like
Aircraft carriers are massive floating cities, housing over 5,000 people. They have their own nuclear power plants, their own airfields, even their own jails buried in the bowels of the ship. Except in the Navy, they call it a “brig.”
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Those Incredibly Intricate Metal Origami Models Are Now Available In Colour
If you lack the patience for assembling something as simple as a jigsaw puzzle, you’ll want to move along. Metal Earth’s intricate models, which assemble from flat, pre-cut sheets of metal, could frustrate even a brain surgeon. Which is unfortunate, because these new colour models are so very tempting.
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Monster Machines: China’s First Aircraft Carrier Is Finally Ship-Shape
During the Korean War, China’s greatest military resource was its vastly overwhelming personnel numbers. However, over the past three decades, the People’s Liberation Army has undergone a sea change in military strategy, evolving from a massive army with outdated Soviet weapons to a modernized fighting force, replete with aircraft, submarines and warships — but no…