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Its hull consisted of welded steel with a maximum thickness of 50 mm. It carried a crew of four: commander, driver, gunner and loader. Since the Kanonenjagdpanzer followed the casemate design of most World War II tank destroyers, the gun was fixed within the casemate, located a little right from the center. The 90 mm gun could only traverse 15 ...
Pages in category "Cold War destroyers of the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 359 total.
The first major warship produced by the U.S. Navy after World War II (and in the Cold War) were "frigates"—the ships were originally designated destroyer leaders but reclassified in 1975 as guided missile cruisers (except the Farragut class became guided missile destroyers). These grew out of the last all-gun destroyers of the 1950s.
Sweden had a total of 35 destroyer-class vessels throughout the Cold War, most of them World War II models. As time went on, Sweden begun to put less effort in keeping large surface combatants and instead increasingly relied on patrol boats, fast attack craft, coastal artillery and air superiority. However this approach (especially the ...
M26 Pershing- used immediately post World War II as frontline tank; M46 Patton- used temporarily until M47 Patton could be sent; M47 Patton-Main Italian MBT from 1952 to 1970. M60 tank-Replaced M47 saw service till end of Cold War; Leopard 1- used alongside M60.
Cold War destroyers of the United States (1 C, 359 P) Pages in category "Destroyers of the Cold War" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
The Type 82 was followed into service by the smaller Type 42 destroyer that featured the same Sea Dart missile, 113 mm Mark 8 gun and integrated ADAWS. It was not a direct replacement for the Type 82 per se, but filled the area air defence role in a Cold War, North Atlantic navy. The Type 42 design was however smaller and had a lower manpower ...
USS Maddox (DD-731), was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer.It was named after Captain William A. T. Maddox of the United States Marine Corps.. Maddox screened the ships of the Fast Carrier Task Force during strikes against Japanese targets in the western Pacific.