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WW2 USN Aircraft Carriers
USA (1921-1945), 150 aicraft carriers The leading country in Aircraft Carriers The US Navy started during WW2 with a small…
Type IX U-Boats (1936)
Type IX U-Boats (1936) Germany (1936-45) 194 produced (290 ordered) Type IX, the long-range U-Boat: During world war two, two…
Chikuma class cruisers (1911)
Chikuma class cruisers (1911) Japan (1911) Chikuma, Yahagi, Hirado The Japanese turbine Cruisers: The three cruisers described here are in…
Versuchsgleitboot
Versuchsgleitboot 1 prototype (1916) The Austro-Hungarian secret weapon The Versuchsgleitboot (“Above, gliding boat”) was a prototype of a fast, small…
Tsesarevich
Russian Pre-Dreadnought Battleship (1901) Russian battleship with a french flavor: Without going into lowly humor mixing vodka and baguettes, the…
HMS Tiger (1913)
HMS Tiger (1913) United Kingdom (1913) Battlecruiser The HMS Tiger: Feline beauty and hard shell Described by historian John Keegan…
Cruiser La Argentina (1937)
Armada de la Argentina, School Cruiser 1937-1974 The Argentinian school cruiser: The cruiser “La Argentina”, was conceived as a training…
Type 092 (NATO Xia class) SSBN (1981)
Type 092 (NATO Xia class) SSBN (1981) Chinese PLAN (1981) – 1 Ballistic Nuclear Submarine The first Chinese SSBN: It…
Chester class cruisers (1907)
Scout Cruisers (1907) – USS Chester, Birmingham, Salem The last American cruisers The title seems a bit exaggerating, but there…
Nino Bixio class cruisers (1912)
Nino Bixio class cruisers (1912) Italy (1912) Nino Bixio, Marsala The first modern Italian scouts The Nino Bixio class were…