Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy’s Iowa-class and Japan’s Yamato-class embodied different answers to the same problem: survive enemy gunfire long enough to land decisive hits. Yamato carried the ...
The Navy plans to bring back its heavily armed class of warship known as battleships, and it will arm them with the most ...
The Iowa class of battleships consists of a quartet of formidable ships: The USS Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and the namesake Iowa. Conceptually, they were intended as the perfect battleship, ...
The Navy announced plans for a new battleship program, though key details including funding, design, and timelines remain ...
A major constraint on the Iowa-class design was an “escalator clause” in the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936, which raised the maximum allowable displacement of battleships from 35,000 tons to ...
The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...
Trump says he will help design a new Trump-class battleship, part of a new 'golden fleet' of warships for the U.S. Navy ...