Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of the ...

At point blank range in the dead of night, the American battleship USS Washington unleashed her main battery on the Japanese ...

Key points and Summary - The Montana-class represents the U.S. Navy battleships that never sailed. Authorized in 1940 as America's answer to Japan's Yamato-class superbattleships, the five planned ...

This battleship saw extensive service in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters of the Second World War. Among the legendary platforms involved in World War II were the battleships. Both the Axis and ...

US President Donald Trump said he's thinking about bringing back US Navy battleships. Battleships were heavily armored, gun-wielding ships that dominated naval fights for decades. Aircraft carriers, ...

The largest, most massive battleships to ever exist were the Japanese Yamato-class WWII-era warships which incorporated nine ultra-large 460mm 18.1-inch naval guns. The large weapons, designed for ...