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The USS Montana would have been a massive battleship – but it was obsolete from the start: In the early 1940s, the U.S. Navy still...
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The USS Montana would have been a massive battleship – but it was obsolete from the start: In the early 1940s, the U.S. Navy still...
Hyūga almost became the last aircraft carrier to be sunk from enemy fire as well. However, just a day later, on July 29, the...
The Yamato and Iowa-class battleships were the most powerful battleships ever. However, could something even bigger have been built?
Not every battleship attacked at Pearl Harbor was badly damaged. USS Maryland escaped virtually unscathed and served with the Pacific Fleet as the tide of war turned against...
However, during World War II it was America's enemies, Germany and Japan, that each paid a tragically high "butcher's bill" during the war. Here...
The Iowas certainly delivered a great deal of ordnance to target on the Korean Peninsula over the course of the war. However, the overall...
For all the hype around the power and capabilities of battleships – not to mention the fact that the capital vessels were even at...
While not remembered by general naval historians, Italy’s World War II battleship fleet was quite powerful. The Roma was one such battleship that history...
In most configurations, the Lions would have been somewhat smaller, somewhat slower, slightly better protected Iowas, more effective than the U.S. North Carolina and...
Colossal practical difficulties would work against reactivating the dreadnoughts at low cost, despite these superficially plausible figures.