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 US Navy needs multi-mission, long-range autonomous warships that can traverse and fight across the vast waters of the ...

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 […] ...

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 ...

The USS New Jersey, an Iowa-class battleship, served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf. It's now ...

During the lead-up to the United States' entry into World War II, the U.S. Navy ordered six new battleships that were designed to combat Japan's Kongō-class battleships. Ultimately, only four of the ...

did just that by slugging it out in hand-to-hand combat with German sailors from U-66 in the middle of the Atlantic. For centuries, naval battles were fought up close, with boarding parties storming ...

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 ...

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 ...

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