The Montana-class battleships, conceived under the 1940 Two-Ocean Navy Act, were envisioned as the U.S. Navy’s most formidable warships. With a standard displacement of 60,500 tons and twelve ...

Martin Gordon, Glasgow native living in Blackrock, Cork, speaks on growing up during the conflagration the Irish still refer to as 'The Emergency' ...

The first USS Utah was lost in the attack on Pearl Harbor, and no other ship was named for the Copper State until Saturday’s ...

The ceremony, held in Trieste, coincided with the 71st anniversary of the city’s return to Italy and marks the ship’s ...

By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. What’s old is new again. The possibility of resurrecting battleships as a potent symbol of naval power is back as a popular topic of discussion in […] ...

In fact, the Navy owned the Jeffboat shipyard during World War II. Jeffboat builders constructed more than 100 warships for ...

The U.S.S. Edsall’s 2023 discovery at the bottom of the Indian Ocean is reviving the tale of the ship the Japanese forces ...

Two years after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack, Israel is torn. Its war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians. But it has not freed all Israeli hostages from Hamas, and the trauma lives on. An ...

American battleships were a symbol of naval power for decades but became obsolete with the rise of missiles and other warships.

The US President announced the possibility of returning the Navy to the concept of battleships equipped with heavy artillery. He said this in a speech to the US Department of War. “I think we should ...

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, ...