Which battleships sunk in combat throughout the Second World War? We often think of the ground battles of World War 2, the massive campaigns of the sky, and other valiant battle fronts. However, the ...

As U.S. destroyers like USS Carney fend off missile and drone swarms in the Red Sea, critics argue modern surface ships are ...

When it comes to history, it's typically the most legendary ships that are highlighted. But at the other end of the spectrum, certain warships didn't exactly make the grade. Sometimes there were ...

Battleships are large, heavily armored and armed warships, but the United States Navy stopped using them toward the end of the 20th century. Their usefulness waned as missile technology improved, and ...

US President Donald Trump suggested that he's considering bringing back US Navy battleships, vessels that were retired decades ago, long after the kind of naval combat they were built for had become a ...

The USS Illinois was authorized under the Two-Ocean Navy Act of July 19, 1940. This was a legislative attempt to bolster what was feared to be a flagging United States Navy in response to growing ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In January 1991, a huge Allied naval fleet had amassed in the Persian Gulf–the largest deployment of naval strength since 1945. Two of the US ...

Many experts wrote off the battleship before 1991—but that year, they proved key to ensuring America’s decisive, rapid victory over Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi Army. Decommissioned in the 1950s as nuclear ...

At first glance, Ingo Bauernfeind’s book on American battleships appears to join the great works by Siegfried Breyer and Garze and Dulin, but this new volume from Casemate offers both more and less.

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