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The navy would also need four submarines (including delaying one LA class retirement), three new destroyers, and three frigates to improve its flexibility for positioning maritime combat power, as well as six more logistics and support ships to keep the fleet at sea longer.
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Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
The Curtiss’ 5-inch guns fired on it, and a passing destroyer took it out with depth charges.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
The final resting place of the USS Edsall, a Clemson-class destroyer, was discovered late last year at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, according to the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
Ties were so strained, for example, that in 2018 Japan’s Defense Ministry charged that a South Korean navy destroyer directed a targeting radar system at Japanese military patrol aircraft, charges that South Korea denied.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
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Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
The Curtiss’ 5-inch guns fired on it, and a passing destroyer took it out with depth charges.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2024
The final resting place of the USS Edsall, a Clemson-class destroyer, was discovered late last year at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, according to the U.S. Navy and Royal Australian Navy.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 12 Nov. 2024
Ties were so strained, for example, that in 2018 Japan’s Defense Ministry charged that a South Korean navy destroyer directed a targeting radar system at Japanese military patrol aircraft, charges that South Korea denied.
—Ann Scott Tyson, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Dec. 2024
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The Pentagon expected the warship to be operational in the first half of 2025. What To Know Photos taken by Chinese ship spotters showed the Fujian returned to Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, where it was constructed in 2017 and launched, from its sixth sea trial.Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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The shortfall is so severe that warship production is down to its lowest level in a quarter century.Nicole Foy, ProPublica, 2 Jan. 2025
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At about ten o’clock that night, the bridge finally fell into the brook, but the truck did not follow, and was hauled to safety by a wrecker.Gary Greenberg, Harper's Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
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The story of its existence—never safe from the wrecker’s ball and once, in 1997, devastated by a fire so hot the tiles fell off—begins with railroad baron Cornelius Vanderbilt opening Grand Central Terminal in 1913, putting the Oyster Bar in its belly.John Mariani, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2024
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These preyed upon American merchantmen who either payed tribute or showed forged British passes.Thomas Wendel, National Review, 4 July 2019
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The Navy already has ships in the fleet that are former merchantmen.Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 10 Jan. 2019
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Punk and Emo, the forerunners of today’s worm-mollusks, lived on the dark seafloor amid gardens of sponges, nearly 200 million years before the first dinosaurs emerged on land.Kate Golembiewski, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2025
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Add the detergent to the water then dip the sponge or cloth in the water and get to work on the spot.Cody Godwin, USA TODAY, 2 Jan. 2025
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The reality show challenges faithful contestants to identify a number of secret saboteurs among them in an effort to win a cash prize.Raven Brunner, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025
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In addition to striking that meeting of captains, the Ukrainian intelligence directorate and special operations command may have sent saboteurs to blow up a critical railroad through Tokmak on Dec. 15, reportedly destroying a fuel train in the process and disrupting Russian logistics in the area.David Axe, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2024
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Miraculously, only one member of the Hooligan Navy was killed while serving, during a collision with a Dutch freighter.David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Authorities said at the time that their initial findings showed a Chinese fishing vessel and a Chinese freighter caused the disruption, but that there was no evidence Beijing deliberately tampered with the cables.Reuters, NBC News, 7 Jan. 2025
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Roving like hungry jackals, smallmouth bass will move down and along drop-offs, hunting for the holdout crayfish, leeches, and insects along their way.Kubie Brown, Outdoor Life, 3 Oct. 2024
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The leeches in both videos belong to a species called Chtonobdella fallax.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Photo: Brown Harris Stevens Above the bedroom is a double-height library, which turns the sloping ceiling behind a mansard roof into a design feature rather than a space waster.Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 24 Oct. 2024
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California is moving to outlaw watering some grass that’s purely decorative Today, the lawn is among the biggest wasters of water in our urban environment — by some estimates accounting for more than half of the gallons used by city residents each year.Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
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“Destroyer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/destroyer. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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