Touting large-caliber guns and torpedos, battleships carried intense firepower and heavy armor. With the advancement of military technology, the need for battleships dwindled. There are only eight US ...

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 ...

CAMDEN, New Jersey (WPVI) -- The newly painted and repaired USS New Jersey had quite the homecoming on Thursday afternoon. After nearly 12 weeks away from the Camden waterfront, the historic vessel ...

After the dull weeks of winter, the U.S. Navy went forth on its spring maneuvers. The Pacific Fleet, known as the Black Fleet, under Admiral S. S. Robison, composed of 51 vessels, including most of ...

America’s security and prosperity is at high risk today, largely because of bad policies backed up by too weak armed forces. Consider our U.S. maritime complex. Decades of neglect and inadequate ...

Battleships are generally best known by their guns, and for good reason. A ship carrying eight sixteen-inch guns may have the same weight of broadside as one carrying twelve fourteen-inch guns, but ...