The Ghost stealth boat is a weapon designed for fleet defense, capable of flying across the water on submerged pontoons using super-cavitation technology—a trick that creates a massive air bubble to ...

The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...

In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy chased a dream: a vertical takeoff fighter that could defend ships without needing a carrier. The result was the Convair XFY-1 Pogo—a prop-driven, delta-winged, ...