What does a modern navy call its heavyweight when the old battleship is long gone? The U.S. Navy’s answer is not a revival of ...
96 standard launch cells has been the baseline figure for the Navy’s DDG(X) concept, but the larger issue has never been ...
USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.
By 2025 the Zumwalts finally found a useful purpose, as a launch platform for long range two stage Hypersonic Strike Missiles that can hit a target anywhere in the world in less than an hour. Zumwalts ...
The Navy was not planning to unveil a new class of ship last year, much less two, but November and December brought the cancellation of a frigate program, the launch of another, and the comeback—at ...
Which battleships sunk in combat throughout the Second World War? We often think of the ground battles of World War ...