The British Royal Navy is building a new class of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines. The British subs will have the same missile compartment as the US Navy's new missile subs. The name of ...

Key Point: She changed naval warfare–forever. State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth century involved a mix of large- and small-caliber weapons. Naval architects believed that ...

Here's What You Need To Remember: The notion that a warship could go from being the world class to obsolete in a decade (perhaps less, given how quickly new ships outclassed Dreadnought) is almost ...

The largest operator of aircraft carriers by a wide margin, the United States knows that controlling the sea goes hand in hand with global stability and economic progress. However, the United States ...

A new powerful submarine’s construction that can bolster U.S. Navy’s defense has begun. Named USS Wisconsin (SSBN 827), the vessel will be the second Columbia-class submarine, following the future USS ...

The state of naval warfare at the end of the 18th century -- The wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon : Britain versus France and nearly everyone else, 1793-1815 -- The revolution in ships, ...