battleship

The US has deployed another battleship to relieve the Lincoln, which should arrive in the Middle East in another week.

From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026

The battleship was supplanted as king of the seas in the 1940s by the aircraft carrier.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Navy officials have said the new battleship would be armed with unproven next-generation weapons including lasers and rail guns, which are weapons that use electricity to fire a projectile instead of gunpowder.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026

Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.

From Salon ● May 8, 2026

And a British battleship shelled and destroyed a Turkish fort guarding the Dardanelles, the narrow sea channel leading from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea and Russia beyond.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

However, Woodburn said there was still a role for the traditional battleships and submarines that BAE has been manufacturing for decades.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

FDR’s “arsenal of democracy” produced External link 10 battleships, 27 carriers, 211 submarines, and 310,000 aircraft to help win the war and establish Pax Americana.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Hegseth and Trump were frustrated by his lack of progress in implementing shipbuilding reforms to create Trump’s so-called “Golden Fleet,” led by the theoretical new “Trump-class” battleships.

From Salon ● May 1, 2026

It’s unusual for a man to be surprised that modern battleships are more advanced than ones decommissioned decades ago, but more interesting was his engagement in what he was saying.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Close-up Conolly bought his three cruiser divisions and six battleships in right next to shore to pound the coastal defenses.

From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac