The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...
A microscopic model of Japan’s famed World War II battleship Yamato has gone on display at the Yamato Museum Satellite here.
The pristine hull of the Yukikaze cut through the turbulent Pacific, her crew on edge. Explosions lit up the night sky as the ...
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The 10 Biggest Battleships Ever Built

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.