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USS New Jersey fired in combat across four conflicts separated by forty years. She screened the fast carriers through the Pacific war, came out...
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USS New Jersey fired in combat across four conflicts separated by forty years. She screened the fast carriers through the Pacific war, came out...
The Houthis never sank an American warship. What they did instead was make the Navy pay to stay afloat. On one Red Sea deployment...
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...
The Navy planned 32 Zumwalt-class destroyers and built three. It planned 20 Constellation-class frigates, and cancelled the program in November 2025 with two under...
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....