Navy Releases Hundreds of Pages on Cold War-Era “Advanced Naval Vehicles,” Including Nuclear-Powered Aircraft and High-Speed Warship Concepts

A newly completed Freedom of Information Act release from the U.S. Navy provides hundreds of pages of detailed technical, cost and mission analysis from a late-1970s effort to determine what the next generation of naval vehicles might look like, which includes nuclear-powered aircraft designed to remain on station for days, 80-knot surface-effect ships, enormous lighter-than-air [...] The post Navy Releases Hundreds of Pages on Cold War-Era “Advanced Naval Vehicles,” Including Nuclear-Powered Aircraft and High-Speed Warship Concepts first appeared on The Black Vault.

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