Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

Modern harbors are crowded with steel hulls and humming engines, not tall masts and canvas. The global fleet has traded wind ...

As U.S. destroyers like USS Carney fend off missile and drone swarms in the Red Sea, critics argue modern surface ships are ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The problem is that passive systems need to protect a ship from a wide range of different attacks, including cruise missiles, torpedoes, ballistic missiles, and ...

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 ...

Friends, readers, countrymen, lend me your ear: The time has come for me to explain the difference between a warship and a battleship. Earlier this week, a National Public Radio host asked if ...

The new Princess of Wales is sponsor of the HMS Glasgow, a modern battleship currently being constructed in Scotland Janine Henni is a Royals Staff Writer for PEOPLE Digital, covering modern ...

In July 1921, US aircraft demonstrated how air attacks could swiftly dispatch modern warships. The tests were an early glimpse of the changes aviation would bring to naval warfare. The impact of those ...

In 1921, Army Brig. Gen. Billy Mitchell proved airplanes could sink battleships. Three years later, he predicted Japan would launch a surprise air attack on Pearl Harbor at dawn. Navy and Army brass ...

For three days last weekend, the brand new 35,000-ton German battleship Bismarck was mistress of the seas. Against seemingly heavy odds, she had blown to bits Britain’s largest warship, the 42,100-ton ...