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USS Alabama cost about $80 million, displaced roughly 45,000 tons, carried nine 16-inch guns and earned nine World War II battle stars.
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USS Alabama cost about $80 million, displaced roughly 45,000 tons, carried nine 16-inch guns and earned nine World War II battle stars.
USS Texas entered service in 1914 with ten 14-inch guns, 28,100 horsepower and a 27,000-ton displacement. After fighting in both world wars and spending...
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 North Carolina combined 44,800 tons, 121,000 horsepower and nine 16-inch guns in one treaty-era battleship. She survived a Japanese torpedo, earned 15 battle...
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...