Key Points and Summary – President Donald Trump has unveiled plans for a new “Trump-class” of large surface combatants, billed as modern battleships and...
Key Points and Summary: Following a major $10 million dry dock refurbishment, the battleship USS New Jersey (BB-62)—the most decorated warship in U.S. Navy...
Key Points and Summary – USS Kentucky (BB-66) was conceived first as a Montana-class super-battleship and then reordered as an Iowa-class fast battleship, meant...
Key Points and Summary – The Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser was conceived as a nuclear-powered, prestige flagship built to stalk U.S. carrier groups and survive...
Article Summary – Iowa-class battleships were monsters of World War II, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm—floating fortresses that hurled 16-inch shells deep inland and...