On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Germany’s Shanho and Gnisau battleships represented the pinnacle of naval engineering before and during WWII. Designed to circumvent post-Versailles restrictions, these powerful vessels wreaked havoc ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Almost as soon as President Donald Trump announced that the ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday the Navy will build a new class of battleships called the Trump class, with the first ship to be named USS Defiant (BBG-1). The ship will displace more than ...

The wreck of a German steamship sunk at the end of World War II found by divers, with the crates on board the submerged ...

The battleship Tirpitz, Germany’s largest and warship of WWII, was an enormous threat to Allied naval operations. In response ...

Just after 2 a.m. on July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at a munitions depot on Black Tom Island in New York Harbor. The blast registered as a 5.5 magnitude earthquake and was felt ...

Building a cruise ship is a phenomenal, highly skilled undertaking, and there are only a few shipyards in the world that can ...

Whether it is the traditional green, black and brown patterns seen on military uniforms or the more flamboyant “Dazzle Ships” ...

After fighting at D-Day and the Battle of the Bulge, Frank Burgmeier was on Syracuse TV and then started his own public ...

Clark County families couldn’t escape the Office of Price Administration during World War II. By the winter of 1942, American factories had turned toward manufacturing ammunition, ships and tanks. Eve ...

The story of Germany's Great Battleships during the Second World War. With graphic recollections from veterans of the 'Kriegsmarine', this film depicts the rise during Hitler's Naval Expansion program ...