by David Axe | Oct 22, 2012 | Monitor
America in the shipyard in Mississippi. Photo: Navy She’s 844 feet long, 106 feet wide and displaces 45,000 tons of water. The future USS America, christened in Mississippi on Saturday, is technically an amphibious assault ship, a type of vessel optimized for...
by David Axe | Sep 16, 2012 | Monitor
A Harrier conducts tests over California last year. Photo: Navy Insurgent fighters wearing U.S. Army uniforms breached the defenses of the main British-run air base in southern Afghanistan on Friday. Firing guns and rockets and apparently triggering suicide vests, the...