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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...
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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...
At noon Beijing time, a missile rose out of the Pacific carrying a dummy warhead, and Beijing declined to say what it was. Western...
Khrushchev had killed the capital ship for good, or so Soviet doctrine said. Then a submarine hunter began absorbing missions, one requirement at a...
The USS Massachusetts (BB-2) was so badly designed it would tilt sideways when its guns rotated. It killed its own crew in turret and...
The Iowa-Class Battleship Will Never Leave Museum Duty: Back in August of 2025, I toured the Battleship Iowa Museum in San Pedro, California. Going...
The U.S. is currently in a military conflict with Iran, but this is not the first time that has happened. And, in fact, this...
The U.S. Navy sank five of its own ships in a single battle — by accident. This is one of those stories from World...
The USS Oriskany Tragedy: How a Mishandled Flare Killed 44 Sailors The USS Oriskany fire of October 26, 1966, remains one of the deadliest...
Key Points and Summary: The Forrestal-class carriers were the first true “supercarriers,” purpose-built to handle the heavy jets of the Cold War era. The...