During the Cold War, the Soviet Navy built four Kiev-class aircraft cruisers between 1970 and 1987. After being retired from service following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the lead vessel ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy has historically been cautious about selling its capital ships, such as battleships and aircraft carriers ... any World War II-era battleships or carriers.

History was made over the weekend in San Francisco Bay. 80-year-old Philippine Mars water bomber plane touched down near Alameda in an 800-mile journey from British Columbia, before ending its voyage ...

was selling surplus planes from the war at drastically discounted rates. With money from the Haganah, he could buy the planes and recruit his old war buddies to smuggle them to the Jews in ...