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Is the Era of Large Naval Warships Over? At an ASPI conference a few years ago, I remarked that I thought that major surface combatants...
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Is the Era of Large Naval Warships Over? At an ASPI conference a few years ago, I remarked that I thought that major surface combatants...
Warship design is a political process as much as an engineering challenge. Never was that more true than during the interwar decades, the heyday...
Battleship Yamato Was One Massive Warship (But Was Still Obsolete Ever Before She Set Sail): At least 23 designs were prepared between 1934, when plans...
The lead ship of a new class of three 32,000-ton battleships, USS New Mexico had been completed at the end of the First World...
Three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 10, 1941 the battleship era truly ended. All eight of the U.S. Navy’s battleships...
USS Iowa: The US Navy’s Best Battleship? A 3 Minute History – In our divided nation today, it can be hard to find common...
Today, there are eight permanent museum battleships in existence in the United States – nine if you count the USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl...
Battleship Montana: The Super Battleships Never Built – In September 2020, the future Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Montana (SSN-794) was christened in a ceremony at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)...
With primary armament that consisted of nine 16-inch (406mm)/50-caliber guns in three 3-gun turrets, including two forward and one aft, the U.S. Navy’s four...
USS South Dakota, A Quick Battleship History: During the First World War, the U.S. Navy began to move forward with a new class of battleships....