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Japan’s battleship Musashi displaced more than 72,000 tons, carried nine 18.1-inch guns and protected its vital spaces with armor more than two feet thick....
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Japan’s battleship Musashi displaced more than 72,000 tons, carried nine 18.1-inch guns and protected its vital spaces with armor more than two feet thick....
A contemporary account placed spending on USS Kentucky at $55 million before construction ended with the hull slightly more than 72 percent complete. The...
The Navy plans to buy USS Defiant in fiscal 2028 at a gross weapon-system cost of $17.47 billion. USS Gerald R. Ford, a 100,000-ton...
USS Mississippi entered service in 1917 as a 32,000-ton dreadnought armed with twelve 14-inch guns. She survived two turret disasters and two kamikaze strikes,...
USS New York carried ten 14-inch guns, served with the Grand Fleet and at Iwo Jima, survived two atomic tests and sank as a...
On July 20, a China Coast Guard team in a small boat closed on Philippine sailors near Second Thomas Shoal and repeatedly struck one...
General Dynamics Electric Boat received the largest award in its 127-year history on July 29, 2026: a $76.6 billion package that includes $42.1 billion...
USS Wisconsin was built in Philadelphia in 1,177 days and launched on December 7, 1943, two years after Pearl Harbor. The Iowa-class battleship screened...
USS Tennessee was moored inboard of USS West Virginia on December 7, 1941, and survived because her neighbor absorbed the torpedoes. Two armor-piercing bombs...
Built at Mare Island under a $12.75 million cost limit, USS California displaced 32,300 tons and fired an 18,000-pound broadside. Two torpedoes and a...