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Why this ocean is called Ironbottom Sound, the WWII naval battles that turned Guadalcanal into a shipwreck graveyard

In the Solomon Islands, a single stretch of water became the center of a brutal year-long campaign. This breaks down the key naval battles around Guadalcanal, and why so many ships went down here that ...

I toured the USS Massachusetts, the 680-foot battleship that fired the last shot of World War II. Take a look inside.

The USS Massachusetts, known for its pivotal role in World War II, is now a museum and war memorial in Massachusetts.
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Sonar Found a WWII Submarine No Country Claims — Experts Say That’s Impossible

One hundred eighty feet beneath the North Sea, a survey team's sonar has detected something that should not exist. A[...] ...
SaltWire

Canada's race to build warships: Here's what they'll do, and the yards vying to cut their steel

With the world’s most advanced radar (Aegis Combat System), sonar and command-and-control systems, a single River-class ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN

A $5.5B carrier’s worst matchup: A slow diesel sub that barely makes noise

How does a nuclear supercarrier, escorts, aircraft, and submarines constitute to defend it, come to die in the hands of such ...
BBC

Starmer: Trump's Afghan war comments 'insulting'

The Prime Minister is "appalled" by the President's claim that NATO troops were not on the front line in Afghanistan. Former Chief of the Defence Staff, Lord Richards, reflects on his service there, ...
BBC

The post-World War II era is over. What comes next?

For most of the years since World War Two, many global powers said they adhered to a rules-based international order. Since Donald Trump returned to the White House that idea is falling away. But did ...
Android

LG Unveils the World’s First Dolby Atmos FlexConnect Sound System at CES 2026

At CES 2026, LG showcased its new Sound Suite, the world’s first soundbar system powered by Dolby Atmos FlexConnect, alongside its latest TV innovations. Centered around the H7 soundbar, the modular ...
Northcountrypublicradio.org

Looking Back: Making Music from the Sounds of War

As we look back at our international reporters' most memorable stories of the last year we revisit a story about a Ukrainian youth... Looking Back: Making Music from the Sounds of War As we look back ...
The New York Times

The Nazi Plunder of Church Bells Changed the Sound of Europe

As church bells chime and peal the New Year, historians say the looting of more than 150,000 bells during World War II left “a sonic gap” in the landscape. A bell inside the Dom Tower in Utrecht, the ...
SiliconANGLE

Sonar adds architecture controls to keep fast-growing codebases structurally sound

Code quality testing startup SonarSource Sàrl today introduced a major expansion of SonarQube that brings full software architecture management into its code quality and security platform for the ...
CNN

'Sounds Like the Beginning of a War'

The US seizes an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela. Is a land invasion next? And is this about democracy or oil? ... Will a social media check soon be required for tourists visiting the United ...