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Over the years I considered writing on this, but did not as there are other commentaries on the topic already. However some of them “mix things up” as to when and why these proposals were created, especially regarding Martin Marietta’s “Phase II” and the actual 1980s reactivations of the WWII Iowa class.
I hope that this may be of some value to show all the id...
This is a look at how Mosin-Nagant rifles, the USSR’s main longarm of WWII, came commercially into the United States at the height of anti-communist sentiment.
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On 1 October 2025 the Royal Thai Navy decommissioned HTMS Pin Klao, the former USS Hemminger (DE-746). It was the last Cannon class in service, the final WWII DE (destroyer-escort) of any type still in service, and one of a small number of WWII warships of any type or nation still in use during the 2020s.
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The Admirable class was one of the US Navy’s two main fleet minesweeper classes during WWII. Some were Lend-Leased to the USSR during the war and ten of those would end up converted into a quite unexpected civilian role.
...The USA’s M4 Sherman tank of WWII had a long career after that war, seeing service with numerous armies in several conflicts around the world after WWII. The last active user was the South American nation of Paraguay.
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