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USS Missouri combined 58,000 tons, 212,000 shaft horsepower and nine 16-inch guns with combat service in World War II, Korea and Desert Storm. A...
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USS Missouri combined 58,000 tons, 212,000 shaft horsepower and nine 16-inch guns with combat service in World War II, Korea and Desert Storm. A...
Built for $52.8 million, USS South Dakota displaced 44,519 tons at full load and fired a 24,300-pound armor-piercing broadside. “Battleship X” survived Santa Cruz...
USS Massachusetts cost about $80 million, displaced 44,519 tons at full combat load and carried nine 16-inch guns able to throw a 24,300-pound armor-piercing...
The Battle of the Coral Sea ended on May 8, 1942, the first naval engagement in which the opposing fleets never sighted one another....
The Iowa class was designed for a fight that never arrived. Four ships, 36 sixteen-inch guns, 33 knots to run down Japan's fast capital...
Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
Before Yamato had even entered service, Japan was studying its successor. Design A-150, later nicknamed the Super Yamato, was to carry six 51-centimeter guns,...
The Navy spent fourteen years trying to turn its last unfinished Iowa-class battleship into a carrier, an anti-aircraft ship, then the missile ship BBG-1,...
In April 1945, Japan sent the Yamato — the largest and most powerful battleship ever built — on a one-way suicide mission to Okinawa....
In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy developed nuclear artillery shells the size of the Hiroshima bomb for the 16-inch guns of its Iowa-class battleships....