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US Marines get next-gen missile-launching boats with helicopter-like striking power
The U.S. Marine Corps has received the first batch of Whiskey Bravo multi-mission reconnaissance boats with advanced ...
Rare Video Shows China's Game-Changing Weapon for 'D-Day'
The barges have road spans longer than football fields that could enable rapid deployment beyond heavily defended beaches.
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How an often overlooked World War II-era shipbuilder designed the boat that Eisenhower said 'won the war for us'
Higgins manufactured more than 20,000 boats during his decades-long career. His landing craft were used ... was relatively new to building military hardware when World War II began, but he had ...
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Satellite images show how hundreds of North Korean troops were likely transported to a secluded Russian port
Each landing ship is believed to have capacity to hold several hundred soldiers, possibly as many as 400, according to the researchers. Lair explained that Dunai is a secure military facility, making ...
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The Philippine Mars took its final flight. See photos of the flying-boat aircraft from WWII to its last 800-mile journey.
The Philippine Mars made its final landing at Lake Pleasant ... and produced the Mars flying boat fleet for the US Navy. Best known for its contributions to military and commercial aviation ...
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Military launches new effort to ID unknown soldiers from West Loch Disaster
The West Loch Disaster has sometimes been called a “second Pearl Harbor,” a tragedy that military ... amphibious landing ships known as LSTs. Troops loaded supplies onto the boats throughout ...
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2 pilots in 'good condition' after military plane crash near San Diego: See crash footage
according to the military official's statement. A charter fishing boat for H&M Landing, a West Coast sportfishing company, pulled the pilots out of the water after they ejected from the plane ...
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Foreign customers mull buying Russian amphibious assault boats
South Africa is considering buying 12 transport and landing and assault boats from Russia’s Kalashnikov ... the spokeswoman said at the Army-2017 military and technical forum outside Moscow ...