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

With massive guns and stout armor, battleships were the centerpiece of any major navy for decades before World War II. The US Navy sent its battleships into combat from the 1890s until the Gulf War.

Embark on a thrilling maritime adventure as we delve into 'Battleships Under Attack!'. Witness the might of naval warfare as ...

Touting large-caliber guns and torpedos, battleships carried intense firepower and heavy armor. With the advancement of military technology, the need for battleships dwindled. There are only eight US ...

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 ...

A major constraint on the Iowa-class design was an “escalator clause” in the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936, which raised the maximum allowable displacement of battleships from 35,000 tons to ...

There’s a mystique to battleships. Whenever inside-the-Beltway dwellers debate how to bulk up the U.S. Navy fleet, odds are sentimentalists will clamor to return the Iowa-class dreadnoughts to service ...

The United States Navy doesn't use battleships anymore. The last battleships built by the Navy were those of the Iowa class. These gigantic vessels' similarly gigantic guns have been silent since 1991 ...

The mighty USS New Jersey, aka Big J, is docked in Camden, New Jersey, across the Delaware River from Philadelphia. Though resting quietly now, one of the largest, most powerful battleships in history ...

As usual, the cable news networks were waiting with baited breath last night for what was touted as a foreign policy speech, with details, by Donald Trump on the deck of the Battleship USS Iowa. Well, ...

The success of the Japanese attacks made clear that even modern battleships required air cover to operate in hostile areas. Several other battleships were lost in similar circumstances (mostly ...