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After Italy surrendered in September 1943, the surviving Littorio-class battleships were ordered to Malta to be interned. Luftwaffe aircraft attacked them en route with...
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After Italy surrendered in September 1943, the surviving Littorio-class battleships were ordered to Malta to be interned. Luftwaffe aircraft attacked them en route with...
USS Nevada’s $5.895 million contract produced a ten-gun battleship that survived Pearl Harbor, served 30 years and endured two atomic tests.
USS Texas entered service in 1914 with ten 14-inch guns, 28,100 horsepower and a 27,000-ton displacement. After fighting in both world wars and spending...
Built for $52.8 million, USS South Dakota displaced 44,519 tons at full load and fired a 24,300-pound armor-piercing broadside. “Battleship X” survived Santa Cruz...
Eight months and 46,500 miles from home, USS Enterprise missed the dredged channel into Naval Air Station Alameda and drove onto a mud bar...
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...