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Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
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Long-range missiles, satellites and drones have made U.S. aircraft carriers more vulnerable than ever. Yet moving carriers remain hard to target, their strike groups...
In April 1945, Japan sent the Yamato — the largest and most powerful battleship ever built — on a one-way suicide mission to Okinawa....
In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy developed nuclear artillery shells the size of the Hiroshima bomb for the 16-inch guns of its Iowa-class battleships....
On December 22, 2025, President Trump announced a new class of battleships bearing his name. In May, the Navy's 30-year plan made it a...
The Iowa-class battleships carried nine 16-inch guns, outmatched by the 18.1-inch monsters on Japan's Yamato, the largest battleship guns ever made. Yet the American...
The Iowa-class battleships were the most powerful America ever built, designed to win a decisive gun duel with an enemy fleet. By the time...
America's last and largest battleships were ordered, numbered, and never built. The Montana-class would have out-gunned the Iowa, matched Japan's Yamato, and been too...
The Yamato and Musashi are remembered for how they sank. The stranger story is how they were built: shipyards torn down and rebuilt to...
The Trump-class carries no armor belt and no 16-inch rifles, and the CBO prices the first hull above a Ford-class carrier. The battleship's third...
The Navy finally settled it: the new battleship will be nuclear-powered — and that single decision put the $17 billion Trump-class in direct competition...