The Aegis team deployed the first development model at a land-based site in Moorestown, N.J., and completed initial land-based testing there by October 1973. The model was then installed in the Navy test shipNorton Sound(AVM 1) for at-sea evaluation. Those testing efforts, w...
The first is the nerf to the ever-present Ishtar heavy assault cruiser. There have been a couple of swipes at the dominance of drone boats in general, and the Ishtar in particular since the death of mass drone assist a year back. And still, the ship is ubiquitous to the point that the...