The USS Illinois (BB-65) was conceived as a tougher follow-on to the Iowa class and first of the planned Montana-type heavy ...

US President Donald Trump said he's thinking about bringing back US Navy battleships. Battleships were heavily armored, gun-wielding ships that dominated naval fights for decades. Aircraft carriers, ...

Battleships are large, heavily armored and armed warships, but the United States Navy stopped using them toward the end of the 20th century. Their usefulness waned as missile technology improved, and ...

The announcement to move the USS Texas — the last remaining World War I era dreadnought at Pier 15 as a museum ship — was announced in March by the City’s Wharves Board of Trustees following a ...

It served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Lebanon, and the Persian Gulf. The battleship is now a floating museum in Camden, New Jersey. The USS New Jersey is a battleship of superlatives. Fastest ...

During the lead-up to the United States' entry into World War II, the U.S. Navy ordered six new battleships that were designed to combat Japan's Kongō-class battleships. Ultimately, only four of the ...

A famed battleship floated down the Delaware River on Thursday as the USS New Jersey left its dock in Camden, New Jersey, on its way to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for extensive maintenance work. The ...

Ontario-based veteran Welby (Ike) Isaacs was awarded the first USS Arizona Medal of Freedom on Thursday in Hamilton. The city is home to the lab that rolled steel from the USS Arizona, one of the ...

Australian and US forces on Saturday began two weeks of drills as part of "Exercise Talisman Sabre." At the same time, the US officially commissioned a new battleship in Sydney, the USS Canberra, one ...