The cancellation of the Montana-class battleships during World War II was not a missed opportunity but a wise decision by the U.S. Navy. Although these ships were designed to be the largest, most ...

The Iowa-class battleships, America’s last class of battleships, nearly received a nuclear upgrade during the Cold War. In the 1950s, the U.S. Navy developed the Mk-33 "Katie" nuclear artillery shell ...

The ships navigated “through waters where high-seas freedom ... Taiwan was a Japanese colony before being unified with China ...

Both ships in this class were equipped with a main battery of eight 38-centimeter guns capable of firing shells weighing 800 kilograms. Additionally, the Bismarck vessels sported a secondary ...

What You Need to Know: The Montana-class battleships were the pinnacle of U.S. battleship design during World War II, ...

An invasion of Taiwan by China today would face similar challenges that caused the US to drop the idea during WWII. The ...

Imperial Japan sent its first wave of kamikaze suicide planes to the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Philippines on Oct. 25, ...

Measuring 263m it remains one of the largest battleships ever made ... aimed at knocking down American torpedo bombers”, the WW2 Database website says. “Running into one of these geysers ...

One sailor had the fight of his life aboard a Navy warship with President Truman in attendance just after the first atomic ...

The ships navigated “through waters where high ... Taiwan was a Japanese colony before being unified with China at the end of World War II. It split away in 1949 when Chiang Kai-shek’s ...

The Army's dozens of ships are crucial to military strategy, particularly in the Pacific. But more than half aren't mission ...