We trace the leap from wooden sailing fleets to steel warships, showing how gunpowder, shellfire, and steam power forced ...

The British Royal Navy is building a new class of nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarines. The British subs will have the same missile compartment as the US Navy's new missile subs. The name of ...

Key Point: She changed naval warfare–forever. State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth century involved a mix of large- and small-caliber weapons. Naval architects believed that ...

Here's What You Need To Remember: The notion that a warship could go from being the world class to obsolete in a decade (perhaps less, given how quickly new ships outclassed Dreadnought) is almost ...