The battleship of the future will ... an eight-gun ship would be opposed to a four-gun ship, with the inevitable result (if the gunners were at all equally matched) that the four smaller ships ...

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

The Yamato-class battleships ... featured unprecedented 18-inch guns capable of firing 3,200-pound shells over 25 miles. -Despite their formidable design, all three were sunk by U.S. forces.

The 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun, featured on Iowa-class battleships, became one of the U.S. Navy's most powerful and iconic weapons. Designed initially for lighter rounds, the Mark 7 was ...

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.