By extension, human beings want groups to which they ... Unwilling to admit that battleship guns or ordnance might be defective—or that rule-breaking may have contributed to the explosion ...

In May 1943, a specially formed RAF squadron embarked on a daring moonlit mission. In 1976, the BBC spoke to one of the ...

This is an audio transcript of the Tech Tonic podcast episode: ‘Future weapons — Tomorrow’s technology’ Audio clip One of the mysteries of wartime science, one of the wars ...

I was lucky to be smack at the heart of the 80th anniversary of VE Day service at Westminster Abbey earlier today.

I wanted to make a point of placing the monsters within the daily life of Tokyo,” says the photographer Tess Ayano, who spent a Monday morning in March shooting models in an ...

This, and their large communications rooms, meant they often became flagships for senior naval staff, able to keep the officers in charge safer than the slow battleships while still coordinating ...

Nobody in her family worked on ships, but an uncle was an Air Force mechanic. “My dad said, ‘You’re gonna go from using razors to using welding guns,’” she said, smiling. Global competition China is ...

The battleships of its Pacific Fleet lay at the ... Coming in at rooftop level gave the raiders a jump on the hundreds of anti-aircraft guns ringing the Japanese capital. Doolittle spotted his ...

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.

In Wilmington, the Battleship North Carolina will display two white lights from the ship’s aft superstructure on April 18. Topsail Island plans to light the Assembly building and put on a drone light ...