USS Missouri was one of the mighty Iowa class fast battleships built to match Japan’s powerful surface fleet, but she became ...

Summary and Key Points: The Iowa-class battleship became a legend in part because it was a triumph of industrial scale: millions of design hours, mountains of plans, and roughly 71,000 workers ...

A fast battleship designed to operate alongside aircraft carriers, Iowa can cover a lot of ocean. Operating alone, she detects Bismarck—also operating alone. The duel is on. Despite the Bismarck’s ...

The hypothetical Trump-class battleship would displace between 30,000 and 40,000 tons—making them roughly two-thirds the size of the Iowa-class battleships of World War II. On Monday afternoon, ...

February 25, 2026: The American Commander in Chief recently called for the construction of new Defiant class BBGs, or battleships armed with missiles. These would be 35,000-ton, 260 meter long vessels ...