On January 29, 1943, the USS Waller, fresh from its shakedown cruise, joined Task Force 18 near Rennell Island with a crucial mission: to protect U.S. cruisers and intercept Japanese reinforcements ...

The Iowa-class battleships, the last and largest battleships built by the U.S. Navy, played a crucial role during the Korean War. -Reactivated from reserve status, the USS Missouri, Iowa, New Jersey, ...

There were three batteries ­– based at Bradford, Halifax and Heckmondwike – and their old 40-pounder guns, in service since 1860, had recently been replaced by 4.7-inch naval guns. Originally designed ...

Alongside her fellow naval trainee, Leonor wondered through the beaches La Mulata near Montevideo, which was half an hour from the hotel where the royal was staying. The royal then went for a ...

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial ...

Her armament was the battleship’s defining feature. Nine 18.1-inch Type 94 naval guns, mounted in three triple turrets, were the largest ever fitted to a warship, capable of firing 3,218-pound ...

commander of Naval Surface Forces, said as one example the DDG USS O’Kane “protected a merchant convoy against hostile UAVs and employed their 5-inch gun to successfully defeat the threat.” ...

The story comes to us courtesy of U.K.-based South West News Service (SWNS) Media Group via their Stories by SWNS channel on MSN on or about March 3, 2025, in a fifty-eight-second video titled ...

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Following the trend of U.S. Navy ‘containerized’ solutions for various platforms, BAE Systems is pitching its Bofors 40 Mk 4 as another containerized system for BAE Systems has invested more than $260 ...