The USS Illinois (BB-65) was planned as an Iowa-class battleship during World War II, embodying the Navy’s reliance on heavily armored “battlewagons.” -Ordered in 1940 and partially built, the ...

The Iowa-Class Battleship Comeback of 2025? Some have questioned whether Iowa-class ships should make a comeback, given their ...

The USS Iowa has served the U.S. in its darkest hours. Now, she faces a new set of challenges: combatting the brutal passage ...

The Iowa "will project the kindness and protective capability of our people, backed up by resolve to act" when needed, writes ...

Gayle Anderson reports what KTLA has been following since July 2024, the unique project of replacing the distressed deck of ...

This weekend, the U.S. Navy is commissioning a new Virginia Class fast-attack submarine, the USS Iowa, and the Carroll ...

VFW Post 10102 at 215 Washington Street will host a watch party Saturday when the U.S. Navy’s newest fast-attack submarine, ...

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Local watch party planned. A watch party of the livestreamed ceremony of the USS Iowa commissioning will be held in Dubuque. The local event will be held at Gary Dolphin’s Iron ...

BB-65 was reordered and reconfigured as the fifth Iowa-class battleship, named after the 21st state of the Union. Had the Illinois been built as originally intended, it would have displaced 48,110 ...

The Virginia-class submarine, six years in the making, was christened in June 2023 by former Iowa first lady Christie Vilsack, the ship’s sponsor. It was still in drydock then but substantially ...

A commissioning ceremony will be held at a Connecticut shipyard as the first submarine to bear the USS Iowa name becomes an ...