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

While much of World War II is remembered as taking place on land or in the sky, the battles in the water were just as important. Protecting shipping lanes, troops, and supplies was all necessary over ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was fought near the Philippines over several days with a number of different engagements. The combined conflict made it the largest naval battle of the Second World War, and ...

Associated Press Smoke billows from the USS Yorktown and bursts from anti-aircraft fire fill the air after a Japanese bomber hit the aircraft carrier in the Battle of Midway near Midway Islands during ...

The US Navy has recovered the two aircraft that were shockingly lost from a battleship within 30 minutes of each other. A ...

The U.S. Navy is the most dominant fighting force on the water today. One surprising fact is that the U.S. Navy was established, disbanded, and re-established. The U.S. Navy took place in one of the ...

Tsushima helped a rising Asian power consolidate its regional standing, set that power on the path to destruction in World War II, and fired anti-imperial passions the world over. All battles change ...