Warships are a critical component of any military, but some ships were designed to intimidate through their sheer size. Here ...

For much of modern naval history, the role of a destroyer has been ... This objective was accomplished with a variety of guns, with the largest generally being five inches­—thus far smaller ...

According to the Naval History and Heritage Command, which still owns the gun artifact, the USS Ward (DD-139), a Wickes-class destroyer, was quickly built at Mare Island Navy Yard in California for ...

His naval career spanned five decades, against a backdrop of power struggles across Europe. It was back in Orkney however that in October 1725 he was shot in the chest in Kirkwall ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since. With the final retirement of the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships in ...

Rear Adm. Kenneth W. “Pete” Pettigrew’s Vietnam success made him the only Top Gun instructor to put his training to practical ...

served as a consultant on the 1986 film "Top Gun," a scene from which is shown here. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command) Randall H. Cunningham, the sole U.S. Navy ace pilot of the Vietnam Wa ...