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

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 ...

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 ...

The Montana class was the U.S. Navy’s unbuilt “super battleship”: larger than Iowas, with twelve 16-inch guns, thicker armor, ...

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

The US President announced the possibility of returning the Navy to the concept of battleships equipped with heavy artillery. He said this in a speech to the US Department of War. “I think we should ...

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 ...

Dr. Kelly Geurts, ship sponsor of the future Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine Wisconsin, welds her initials into the ship's keel during a keel-laying ceremony Aug. 27, 2025. Supervising is ...

Archaeologists in North Carolina recently discovered four 18th-century shipwrecks – including the likely remains of a detonated enemy vessel. East Carolina University announced the discovery on July ...

On Dec. 7, 1941, a date Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt condemned to live in infamy, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor prompted America’s entrance into World War II. On Sept. 2, 1945, about 1,365 days ...