HMS Dragon has finally left Portsmouth and is on it way to protect the UK's airbase in Cyprus from air attacks.

The battleship was once one of the central elements of power in any blue-water navy, and they were prominent throughout world conflicts for half a century. The first modern vessel of its time equipped ...

The image of a mighty battleship, its colossal guns trained on an unseen enemy, evokes a sense of raw power and historical grandeur. For generations, these steel behemoths were the undisputed kings of ...

Less than one percent of Americans who served during World War II are still alive today, according to the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. One of those veterans is here in Wilmington, and he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's rendition of the planned Trump-class USS Defiant (BBG-1) - U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons The battleship was once one of ...

World War II made one thing clear: control of the seas could decide the fate of nations. Although battleships had long defined naval dominance, the conflict proved that aircraft carriers and ...

Aircraft carriers replaced battleships as dominant naval power during WWII by striking targets hundreds of miles beyond visual range. Submarines waged economic warfare targeting supply lines. German U ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Donald Trump said "nobody is going to play games" when the U.S. builds battleships "100 times more powerful" than ones ...

World War II was the largest military conflict in world history, and every side built massive machines of war to try to outdo the other. Japan famously built the largest battleships ever made, the ...