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Last week’s midterm rout handed Democrats both houses of Congress — and Robert Kelly maps the four foreign policy fights coming in January. Trump’s...
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Last week’s midterm rout handed Democrats both houses of Congress — and Robert Kelly maps the four foreign policy fights coming in January. Trump’s...
Churchill called capital ships eggshells smiting one another with hammers, and Jutland, Pearl Harbor, and the Yamato proved him right. The Iowa-class battleships answered...
An Iowa-class battleship carried about 3,000 officers and sailors in the Second World War and still needed nearly 1,600 after 1980s modernization — a...
The battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) sat in drydock at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, took one 500-pound bomb, and was seaworthy again by...
On May 6, 1956, off the Virginia Capes, the destroyer USS Eaton, radar dead for four days, turned hard at 27 knots toward a...
Ordered under the Two-Ocean Navy Act of July 1940, the five Montana-class battleships, Montana, Ohio, Maine, New Hampshire and Louisiana, would have been 921...
Proposed in 2025 as the centerpiece of the Golden Fleet, BBG-1 USS Defiant would be 840 to 880 feet long, 30,000 to 35,000 tons,...
Off Songjin in March 1952, a single North Korean 152 mm gun scored a direct hit on USS Wisconsin, wounding three sailors and nothing...
USS Illinois (BB-65), the fifth Iowa-class battleship, was laid down at Philadelphia on December 6, 1942, and would have carried nine 16-inch guns throwing...
At 1:30 a.m. on January 17, 1991, USS Missouri, laid down in 1941, fired the first battleship Tomahawk of the war. Over five weeks...