ABOARD BATTLESHIP NEW JERSEY — Aboard the Battleship New Jersey, surrounded by friends, family and the ship’s important legacy, John “Johnny Q” Quinesso Sr. marked a milestone: his 100th birthday. The ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Something is missing from Battleship Memorial Park’s entrance: the long-standing F-4C Phantom that has graced that space for years. The F-4C Phantom that has long graced the ...

President Trump says modern U.S. ships are “ugly” — not ugly in the damage they can do to the enemy, but aesthetically ugly to what he believes is an expert eye. Hence, the commander-in-chief has ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato. Escorted by the light cruiser Yahagi and eight ...

With much fanfare, just before Christmas, President Trump unveiled a rendering of the USS Defiant, a new Trump-class battleship and the biggest warship the U.S. has constructed since WWII.

In the designation BBG(X), BB means battleship, G means guided missile ship (i.e., a ship with a medium- or long-range air defense system), and (X) means the design of the ship has not yet been fully ...

President Donald Trump scrambled Navy ship-naming traditions last week with his announcement of a new “Trump-class” battleship, to be called the USS Defiant, featuring nuclear-tipped missiles and ...

The lead ship of the new Trump-class battleship is to cost as much as a Ford-class aircraft carrier, according to an analyst for the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Due to the ...

The U.S. Navy will get two new battleships, the “largest we've ever built,” sometime in the 2030s, President Donald Trump announced on Dec. 22. Construction of the ships, designated Trump-class ...

President Donald Trump on Monday unveiled plans for a new “Trump-class” battleship, positioning it as a centerpiece of his administration’s effort to rejuvenate the U.S. Navy long plagued by delays, ...