In the late 19th century, battleships featured a mix of large and small guns, reflecting naval tactics that emphasized high rates of fire at short range. However, advancements in optics and gun ...

Naval strength has long been a vital factor in global politics. Here are 10 ships that were involved in key moments in major ...

Many of the conversions continued to carry heavy (although not battleship caliber) guns, weapons that were ... but had extensive machine shops, stores, and other facilities to provide services ...

Business went on as usual, in sight of battleships, machine-guns, counter marching soldiers. The Interior was different. New provincial governments had barely got going under de Cespedes when the ...

When most people think of World War One, they think of trenches and machine guns ... ships that were faster and had larger guns onboard. The German battleship, SMS Yorck, travelling along the ...

Battleships were the largest warships and ... to larger weapons like machine guns. Explore our interactive sketch book. Click on different weapons and items to find out more about them.

Exploring a frozen battleship, Indy and investigative reporter ... No other weapons were shown (with the exception of a machine gun mounted to a plane during a set piece), so it is unclear if ...

Seventy-seven years after its sinking, the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy Musashi battleship is being brought ... who manned a machine gun. Yamada agreed to the interview with Tezuka even as ...

Hiram Maxim, an English engineer, invents the fully automatic machine gun. The weapon seems to ensure ... War begins two months after the U.S. battleship Maine is blown up in Cuba’s Havana ...

machine-gun bullets. For air defense ... plotting the mooring locations of U.S. battleships. War Games. Washington’s responsibility in the whole matter will be argued for a long time, was ...

World peace, according to our self-acclaimed realists, is at best a heart-warming dream; common sense demands that we put our trust in bombs and battleships ... the point of a gun or bring ...