After finishing my last article on the inability of the US Navy to build frigates, I was hopeful that I could have a bit of a break before the next crisis in ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Key Points and Summary - The Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—were built as fast battleships to escort carrier task forces and overmatch enemy capital ships. -Drawing ...

President Donald J. Trump’s announcement of a new class of American battleships is not nostalgia. It is strategy. It is foresight. And it is exactly the kind of bold, unapologetic leadership the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. US President Donald Trump said he's thinking about bringing back US Navy battleships. Battleships were heavily armored, ...

Critics have rightly lambasted the Zumwalt-class destroyers as “ships without a mission,” plagued by technological overreach and operational irrelevance. Historically, battleships were defined as ...