On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

Conceived in secrecy and built to dominate any naval battle, Yamato embodied Japan’s decisive battle doctrine. Armed with ...

Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s Center Force, including the massive battleship Musashi, sailed into the Sibuyan Sea aiming to ...

President Donald Trump announced Monday the Navy will build a new class of battleships called the Trump class, with the first ship to be named USS Defiant (BBG-1). The ship will displace more than ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Almost as soon as President Donald Trump announced that the ...

They don’t suffer from overtourism here,” said my guide Mayuko, as we strolled through Takehara’s quiet Townscape ...

While the Chinese are placing vertical launched missiles in boxes aboard container ships to augment their navy, we are ...

Trump proposes a new battleship class named after himself, but it could be a costly white elephant. On Dec. 22 at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump — flanked by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of ...

Robert Copeland was a newly minted 30-year-old lawyer when he was called up for active duty at the outset of World War II. In ...

Not every underperforming weapon was poorly designed. In many cases, the problem wasn’t the technology but really it was the environment that it depended on. From aircraft that needed perfect timing ...