Planners envisioned a massive vessel designed to deliver decisive blows against fortified enemy positions. Built on an ...

Plan Z promised Germany naval dominance, but war arrived too soon. As battleships like Bismarck and Tirpitz took shape, ...

The USS Texas has endured a lot since it was commissioned in 1914, and 2026 will see it on display in refurbished condition ...

President Trump has proposed a costly and dangerous initiative to build a new fleet of battleships, the "Trump Class", which ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato. Escorted by the light cruiser Yahagi and eight ...

By Steve Walsh/WHRO One of America’s last battleships, USS Wisconsin, is moored on the Elizabeth River in Norfolk, Virginia.

The US Navy does not need the Trump-class vessel—and is unlikely to ever get it.

President Trump has seen numerous public projects, institutions, and initiatives named after him during his term, a practice ...

The following is the Jan. 16, 2026, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Guided Missile Battleship (BBG[X]) Program: ...

The guided-missile battleship would be twice as large as any cruiser or destroyer the Navy has built since World War II, but about one-third the size of the Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier ...

China opens new runway in Micronesia's Yap islands, raising serious U.S. defense concerns in this strategically vital Pacific ...