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While the chances of a battleship comeback sometime in the future seem dead, we present what many would agree are the finest battlewagons to...
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While the chances of a battleship comeback sometime in the future seem dead, we present what many would agree are the finest battlewagons to...
Since I was a little boy, I have been obsessed with U.S. Navy battleships – and maybe seeing them someday head back out onto...
Forbes Contributing writer and Defense Expert Peter Suciu explains why the era of the battleships is truly over: For military history buffs, there is...
The Royal Navy has a proud history of building some amazing and truly historic warships and genuine battleships. But the Vanguard, which was launched in 1946, far...
The Scharnhorst was far from the most heavily armed battleship deployed by the Kriegsmarine—but she arguably was its most successful. She and sistership Gneisenau...
In my 9 months at 19FortyFive (whoa Nellie, where does the time go?), Yours Truly has penned several articles on battleships, including: (1) the...
The H44 would have been a 144,000-ton monster battleship. And thankfully, it was never meant to be: Before the outbreak of the Second World War,...
To suggest that the Nazis had “grand ambitions” is an understatement, and the key to those plans for domination over Europe was to build...
What made the Iowa-Class Special: Those big 16-inch guns: During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) launched two of the largest...
The Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato, along with her sister ship Musashi, were the largest battleships ever constructed. Her nine 46cm (18.1-inch) Type 94 main guns employed were the largest...