These ships were already surpassed in World War II due to their vulnerability and slowness and are now retired from service.

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a small group of American escort carriers and destroyers unexpectedly faced the most powerful surface fleet Japan ever assembled. Vastly outgunned and outnumbered, the ...

The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...

The U.S. Department of War has announced plans to construct a new class of guided missile battleships, beginning with the future USS Defiant (BBG-1), positioning the vessel as the centerpiece of a ...

The Trump-class vessels will be the largest surface combatants in the world — and the most heavily armed warships built by the US since World War II, according to publicly released specs and an ...

Back in his first term, Trump asked the top Navy admirals to come to the White House to talk about ships. A friend of one of ...

President Donald Trump on Monday announced plans to develop the Trump class of large surface combatants for the Navy under ...

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships ...

The president said development of the vessels would help maintain military superiority and improve the industrial base, but ...

The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build ...

World War II Navy veteran Ira “Ike” Schab, one of the dwindling number of survivors of the 1941 Japanese bombing of Pearl ...