In 1950 the USS Missouri drove high onto a sandbank outside Norfolk, and brute force alone was never going to be enough. This breaks down the lightering, dredging, anchors, tug choreography, and human ...

Last week, President Trump, with his customary fanfare, unveiled plans for a new “Golden Fleet” of Trump-class battleships. “There’s never been anything like these ships,” the president declared as he ...

On Sept. 2, 1945, the official end of World War II came to pass with Japan’s signing of the Instrument of Surrender aboard the battleship USS Missouri. At then-Camp McCoy, Wis., the thousands of ...

It was a memorable day for Southern Methodist University and the University of Arizona as the Navy’s USS Makin Island welcomed both school’s football teams before Friday’s Holiday Bowl. Players ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday announced plans to build new battleships for the first time in more than 80 years — and is naming them after himself. The new ships will represent an upgrade to ...

The end of the Age of the Battleship appears to have been called prematurely as the Trump administration, as part of its Golden Fleet US Navy reform, says it is reviving the giant battlewagons in the ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships on ...

I never thought I would say this in the year 2025, but here it is: the United States is working on a brand-new battleship, the likes of which the seas of the world have not seen in countless decades.

Plans to build a new class of giant surface combatants were announced Monday by President Trump, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and Navy Secretary John Phelan at the president’s Florida mansion.

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 ...