The USS Illinois was supposed to be the fifth of the U.S. Navy's WWII-era Iowa-class battleships, but it never joined its ...

In principle, I am all for fitting out a modern-day descendant of Iowa-class dreadnoughts. Whether doing so is practical is ...

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, ...

The US president has often focused on the appearance and aesthetic of US Navy ships, calling them ugly compared to other ...

A reception took place at the USS Battleship Missouri, where Japan officially surrendered to the United States in 1945, marking the end of World War II.