From the 1890s through the World War II, battleships ruled the waves. These steel leviathans projected naval power across all the world's seas, clashing with other ships or bombarding enemy forces ...

The Navy spent fourteen years trying to turn its last unfinished Iowa-class battleship into a carrier, an anti-aircraft ship, ...

Between the 1880s and the end of World War II, the navies of the world built hundreds of “all-big-gun” battleships, including dreadnoughts and fast battleships. The massive seagoing behemoths evolved ...

The use of nuclear power aboard the future Trump-class vessels may seem prudent now, but is likely to become a financial and logistical albatross for the Navy. The US Navy’s future Trump-class ...

The debate over whether the United States navy needs a new class of battleships has been running for months and is shaped as much by politics as by strategic requirements. Views on this range from ...