Summary and Key Points: In a hypothetical 1988 naval battle, the USS Iowa and a Soviet Kirov-class battlecruiser clash in a fight for naval supremacy. The Kirov, equipped with advanced missiles, would ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy's Lexington-class battlecruisers were authorized in 1916 as America's answer to the global naval arms race. -These massive ships were designed to combine the ...

Key point: There are always trade-offs and modern warships are no different. “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,” said Admiral Beatty as he watched his battlecruisers blow ...

But what if a missile hits them? Just one hit, as we saw with HMS Sheffield and USS Stark, can sink or cripple a ship. Even if it doesn’t sink, the sensors, computers and electronics would likely be ...