In response, the U.S. Navy explored arming its Iowa-class battleships with nuclear artillery shells known as "Katie" (Mk 23) shells in the 1950s. -These 16-inch nuclear shells had yields ...

Key point: New Jersey was inactivated in 1969. The old battlewagon would be reactivated just twelve years later as part of an effort to bring the U.S. Navy battle fleet up to 600 ships. As the war ...

The Advanced Gun System, left, is intended to take on the role of the battleship's 16-inch guns, right. Aside from its GPS-guided shell, the digital technology of the AGS's fire control system ...

Construction began at the Philadelphia Naval Yard on September 16, 1940, and the ship was launched exactly one year after Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1942. She was finally commissioned into the U ...

The Mk. 13 is a high explosive artillery shell fired from the Mk. 17 16-inch main guns of the Iowa-class battleships. Each shell is 16 inches wide and 64 inches long.

Raytheon slimmed down its 155 mm (6-inch) Excalibur projectile, used by U.S. soldiers and Marines, to 5 inches for the 5-inch diameter guns mounted on the Navy’s destroyers. Raytheon 2016 Facebook ...

Struggling to withstand dangerous Nazi attacks on U.S. supply boats, three famous U.S. Navy battleships faced heavy resistance as they closed-in on the German-held Cotentin Peninsula as part of ...