China's naval buildup is overshadowing the US as Chinese leader Xi Jinping pushes the military toward big modernization and ...

USS Missouri and the Iowa-class battleships were larger and more lethal than their predecessors. W hen it comes to legendary ...

Nearly a decade later, the France crashed into a reef and sank. The remaining three battleships underwent some modernization, but even that wasn't good enough to put them on level footing with ...

The island, also known as Gunkanjima (Battleship Island), was once home to the Hashima Coal Mine, an underwater coal mine that contributed to Japan’s modernization. More than 5,000 people ...

The coal mine, located on what is known as “Battleship Island,” is part ... are valuable relics from the era when Japan started modernization. But South Korea opposed adding them to the ...