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 Iowa-class USS Kentucky (BB-66) was laid down in 1942 but never completed, a victim of World War II’s rapid shift from big-gun battles to carrier-led warfare. -As Coral Sea and Midway proved ...

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

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.

At the Navy 250 celebration Sunday in Norfolk that resembled a campaign rally, President Donald Trump celebrated the latest ...

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

Thousands of Sailors gathered at Naval Station Norfolk as part of America’s Navy 250 “Titans of the Sea” all-hands call ...

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

Virginia-class submarines are bigger, faster, quieter, and have more endurance and firepower than Los Angeles class they ...

NORFOLK, Va. — USS Iowa veterans gathered at Naval Station Norfolk Saturday morning for their annual tribute to their fallen fellow sailors on the battleship. One by one, the names of the 47 sailors ...

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

In the late 1940s, the U.S. Navy began construction of the USS United States aircraft carrier, but it was suddenly cancelled ...