The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

The ship will displace more than 35,000 tons and be capable of speeds exceeding 30 knots, according to the Navy. The ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought near the Philippines over several days with a number of different engagements. The combined conflict made it the largest naval battle of the Second World War, and ...

Touting large-caliber guns and torpedos, battleships carried intense firepower and heavy armor. With the advancement of military technology, the need for battleships dwindled. There are only eight US ...

Although battleships were supplanted by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century ...

Summary: This article traces the evolution and significance of steel line-of-battleships from the 1880s, culminating in the revolutionary HMS Dreadnought of 1905, which epitomized naval dominance ...

When the USS New Jersey left the pier for the first time in two decades at the end of March, it did so in style -- with the warship's unusual yellow battle flag flying in the wind. Decommissioned in ...

The United States Navy is the most powerful in history. For decades, it has dominated the seas, and at the heart of that domination, at least through World War II, was the battleship. But today, the U ...

The Navy was gradually getting the better of U-boats in the Atlantic. At the same time the first chill of autumn, bringing intermittent fogs, marked the opening of better weather for submarines. But ...