The battleship of the future will be of great ... The enormously destructive power of the big gun at close ranges; the unwillingness of an admiral to expose his costly ships to the swift ...

Featuring twelve 16-inch guns and enhanced protection ... carrier proved to be more important and vital compared to the ...

State-of-the-art battleship armament in the late nineteenth ... In 1904, the Japanese and the Americans began thinking about ...

It is the purpose of this paper to show that the designers of the war vessels of the United States in their first all-big-gun battleship adopted as the emphasized feature of the fighting machine ...

The Dreadnought Revolution changed the equation. Britain, Germany, and Japan began to build all-big-gun battleships, but supplemented these battleships with battlecruisers. Faster but less ...

For nearly a century, battleships were the preeminent symbol of naval dominance, commanding the seas until the use of carriers became widespread during World War II. Armed with massive guns and a ...

On the recommendation of the general board of the navy the board on construction has requested the Bureau of Construction and Repair to draw plans for a battleship ... turret guns of not less ...

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The cancellation of the Montana-class battleships during World War II was not a missed opportunity but a wise decision by the U.S. Navy. Although these ships were designed to be the largest, most ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.