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On Our Scope

August 2023
Late in the summer of 1740, an eight-ship Royal Navy squadron set sail from Spithead for a voyage around the world. Four years later, when the tattered remnant of Commodore...
midget submarine X-1

The Smallest Boat

By J. M. Caiella
August 2023
During World War II, four major combatants—Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and Japan—used midget submarines with varying degrees of success.
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The Largest V/STOL Aircraft

By Norman Polmar, Author, Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet
August 2023
One of the more unusual vertical/short-takeoff-and-landing (V/STOL) aircraft flown by the U.S. military services was the Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142.


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