by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | May 16, 2022 | History Article
B800 Kaluga decks awash Russia’s iconic conventional submarine known as the Project 877 and Project 636 Kilo class were developed mainly to replace the preceding Foxtrot and Tango classes. Known the world over as a cheap, cheerful yet capable submarine the kilo is...
by Matthew Wright | Apr 26, 2022 | History Article
The term ‘Washington Treaty’ frequently appears in specialist naval books and even general histories of the inter-war period. There is no mistaking the meaning: it refers to the treaty signed on 6 February 1922 between the United States, Britain, Japan, France and...
by Matthew Wright | Apr 11, 2022 | History Article
One of the many myths about the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand – the ship built as a gift from New Zealand to Britain in 1909 – is that she was unaffordable for a small Dominion of just under a million people. In the previous article I showed that this was simply...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Apr 7, 2022 | History Article
NOTE: This is an opinion piece created for discussion purposes and does not reflect the views or opinions of the Canadian government or the Royal Canadian Navy. A Brief History The Royal Canadian Navy is one of the youngest naval forces in the western world. It was...
by ChrisKnupp | Apr 4, 2022 | History Article
This will be the first in a new series where we examine the armor schemes of various battleships throughout history. We will start off this series with the never-built American super dreadnoughts, the Montana class battleships. During the Montana class armor post we...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Apr 2, 2022 | History Article
The General Belgrano started life as the USS Phoenix , a Brooklyn class light cruiser and named for the capital of Arizona. She was ordered on February 13 1929 with the contract being awarded to the New York Ship building company of Camden New Jersey on August...
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