Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, a compromise achieved by sacrificing armor protection. -This “speed is ...

Tirpitz was finally sunk at her anchorage on November 12, 1944, when RAF Lancaster bombers scored two direct hits and a near miss with six-ton “Tallboy” bombs. The wreck was salvaged between 1948 and ...

In May 1941, Britain’s outdated Fairey Swordfish torpedo bombers accomplished the impossible, striking the German battleship ...

Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 during later wars.

Critics have rightly lambasted the Zumwalt-class destroyers as “ships without a mission,” plagued by technological overreach and operational irrelevance.

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