The battleship Tirpitz, Germany’s largest and warship of WWII, was an enormous threat to Allied naval operations. In response ...

HMS Hood, the largest warship in the world for 20 years, was dispatched to ambush the colossal German battleship Bismarck in ...

Combat on the ground and in the air has changed dramatically, over the centuries. The earliest tanks and planes may seem laughably primitive today. The same goes, of course, for naval combat and the ...

Have you seen the size of today’s SUVs? You’re not imagining it if you think that some of those behemoths look bigger than the Canyonero sport utility vehicle driven by Marge Simpson! As described in ...

Effectively, the board's decision leaves the historic dreadnought—one of only a handful to have served in both world wars, and reportedly the world's largest battleship still afloat—stranded at the ...

What You Need to Know: The Yamato-class battleships were the heaviest and most powerfully armed battleships ever constructed, designed by Imperial Japan before World War II to assert naval dominance..

NOTE: This video is from Battleship Wisconsin’s 80th anniversary. NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Battleship Wisconsin (BB-64), one of the last and largest battleships in U.S. history, prepares to turn 81 ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...

At dawn on October 25, 1944, the U.S. Navy escort-carrier group “Taffy 3” sighted the Imperial Japanese Navy’s remaining battleship fleet approaching from the northern horizon off Samar—four ...