Daily Archives: Friday, November 2, 2012

US Navy – Navy’s Newest Assault Ship Moonlights as Pint-Sized Aircraft Carrier

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- Wired – 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 carrying Marines into battle. But subtle changes under America‘s steel skin mean she can double as a small [...]