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She was laid down at Yokosuka in May 1940 as the third Yamato-class battleship, meant to carry 18.1-inch guns into a decisive surface battle...
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She was laid down at Yokosuka in May 1940 as the third Yamato-class battleship, meant to carry 18.1-inch guns into a decisive surface battle...
The logic of the capital ship is impeccable. The impediments are daunting for the Trump-class. The Congressional Budget Office puts each hull at $18...
In May, USS Texas fired blanks from her forward 14-inch guns during the final stages of her restoration at Galveston. The last time those...
The Admiral Nakhimov entered the yard in 1999 and sailed again in 2025 — a refit that quadrupled in cost, outlived its sister ships,...
The Kirov scared Washington, and Reagan's Navy answered with four Iowa-class battleships it already owned. Lehman's written price — $326 million — held, the...
The Montana-class exists only as numbers: 70,965 tons full load, twelve 16-inch guns, armor built to stop its own shells, five ships assigned to...
The US Naval Institute counted 76,000 nautical miles for USS New Jersey's 1983-84 deployment. Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford covered more than 57,713...
The German “pocket battleship” was an unofficial term used by the British press to describe the Deutschland-class cruisers (Panzerschiffe) built by Nazi Germany in...
The US Navy Had A Big Idea: In the late 1970s, proposals were made to convert the Iowa-class battleships into "battlecarriers" with a flight...
The US Navy spent $21.5 million to reactivate Iowa-class USS New Jersey for the Vietnam War. During roughly 120 days on the gunline, the...