the U.S. Navy named a new fleet of battlecruisers in its honor. The Alaska class included six planned ships, but only the USS ...
In addition to guns, the Alaska had size. The battlecruiser measured 808.5 feet long with a 91-foot beam and displaced 34,253 long tons (when fully loaded). For propulsion, the Alaska relied on ...
A Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser, attempting to intercept a U.S. Navy carrier battle group, is intercepted by the ...
The Kirov-class battlecruisers were developed during the Cold War to counter U.S. naval dominance, particularly the threat posed by aircraft carrier strike groups like the USS Enterprise.
A Russian-Chinese flotilla sailed toward the Northern Pacific Ocean on Monday while the United States deployed two warships for homeland defense operations to protect Alaska. According to the ...
But for now, on July 28, 1945, the Indianapolis was sailing from Guam, without an escort, to meet the USS Idaho in the Philippines’ Leyte Gulf, where the two warships would prepare for the ...
Steve Halle, the commanding officer of the USS New Jersey. "Our superior professionalism is enhanced by our crew integration and our diversity," Halle continued as he spoke about his crew being ...
The sub, called the USS New Jersey, is a Virginia-class boat; the newest type of class that means the vessel is designed for a wide variety of naval engagement, including anti-submarine warfare ...
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) off the coast of Virginia Beach, Va., on Sept. 23, 2024. Photo via X WarshipCam USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) departed on Monday from Naval Station Norfolk, Va.
New Jersey's Sandy Hook Bay witnessed the commissioning of the most complex warfare machine ever built in the country — the USS New Jersey, now dubbed as the fastest submarine in the U.S. fleet ...
The USS Samuel B Roberts went down during the Battle Off Samar in the Philippine Sea in October 1944. It lies in 6,895m (22,621ft) of water. Texan financier and adventurer Victor Vescovo ...
The only U.S. Navy oil replenishment ship serving the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, deployed in the Middle East in support of Israel amid its ongoing war with Hamas and soaring tension ...