The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire ...

The Iowa-class embodied peak battleship power: fast, heavily armored, and devastating ashore. -Adjusted for inflation, they ...

In principle, I am all for fitting out a modern-day descendant of Iowa-class dreadnoughts. Whether doing so is practical is another question.

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.

American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other ...

LONDON — The battleship Iowa is on her last voyage. And somewhere up in the North Atlantic she is "fighting" her last battle participating in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization maneuver, Operation ...

CLIP #1: In what conflicts did the Battleship New Jersey "fight?" CLIP #1: What does it mean that the Battleship New Jersey was an "Iowa-class battleship?" CLIP #2: What is the "moniker" of the ...

If you like warships then you will have a fondness for battleships. It’s impossible not to. Their size, their lines, their ...

On the way from Iowa City to Madison are markers of beer’s past and vibrant present and the role football plays in holding it ...

It smashed Iowa City High, then ripped through Dubuque Hempstead. It stormed past Pleasant Valley and then handled Bettendorf on the road. No. 5 Iowa City West football is flying high at 4-0, its best ...

For decades, some military machines have outlived the conflicts that produced them, continuing to serve in front-line roles, ...