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The Battleship still inspires naval enthusiasts around the world. And some of their tragic stories of death are nothing short of being epic: On December...
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The Battleship still inspires naval enthusiasts around the world. And some of their tragic stories of death are nothing short of being epic: On December...
The Iowa-class battleships are legends for a simple reason: they might just be the best battleships ever built. Here is their story: The film...
Why didn’t the US Navy build the Montana-class battleships? Sadly, they were obsolete before they were even dreamed up on the drawing board: It was the...
Battleship Iowa CEO Has Received U.S. Navy’s Most Prestigious Civilian Award: Since 2012, the USS Iowa (BB-61), the lead ship of the United States...
We Know One Thing: London Won’t Be Giving Putin any Warships Anytime Soon – In what might be a most unusual twist of fate, a...
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...