The largest ever mounted on a warship, each gun could fire 3,200-pound (1,460 kg) shells over 26 miles (42 kilometers).

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

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

During the lead-up to the United States' entry into World War II, the U.S. Navy ordered six new battleships that were designed to combat Japan's Kongō-class battleships. Ultimately, only four of the ...

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 ...

The Battleship New Jersey became a floating shooting range as dozens of competitors fired at clay targets soaring over the Delaware River last week. Shot after shot rang out from the deck of the ...