A Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser, attempting to intercept a U.S. Navy carrier battle group, is intercepted by the battleship USS Iowa. The biggest ship-against-ship battle since the World War ...

The Kirov is the size of a World War I-era battleship – and is typically referred to as a battlecruiser because ... eight 30mm (1.18in) AK-630 close-in weapon systems; the Kortik air-defense ...

Over the past 40 years, memorials to America's 20th century wars have sprung up across Washington, D.C., with one conspicuous omission: There was no national memorial to veterans of World War I in ...