Command the mighty Scharnhorst in this immersive WWII naval simulation. Walk her decks in first-person, control gunnery, radar, and navigation, and lead your fleet through the Atlantic, Arctic, and ...

For the sixth year in a row, the historic battleship Wisconsin and its surroundings in downtown Norfolk will be decked out in lights — more than 2 million of them — for the holiday season. And, for ...

Although battleships were replaced by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century, ...

The Iowa class of battleships consists of a quartet of formidable ships: The USS Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin, and the namesake Iowa. Conceptually, they were intended as the perfect battleship, ...

In principle, I am all for fitting out a modern-day descendant of Iowa-class dreadnoughts. Whether doing so is practical is another question. But chronological age does matter. Those were hard ships ...

He has a bridge over the Delaware River named for him, and he's known as "The Father of the American Navy." There was a special celebration aboard the Battleship New Jersey to honor Commodore John ...

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Overcast skies gripped Tokyo Bay on an early September morning 80 years ago. Naval ships anchored in the harbor rocked ever slightly as officials representing the United States and Japan gathered on ...

The Battleship North Carolina has a Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher plane on display that was not originally part of the ship's WWII service. This Kingfisher crashed in Canada in 1942, was recovered in 1964, ...

In a word, no, the U.S. Navy is not reactivating the USS Missouri. The rumor that this Iowa-class battleship, first launched in 1944, surfaced on social media a few years ago, and a nasty case of the ...