The Iowa-class battleships were the pinnacle of American naval engineering and firepower. Conceived in the late 1930s and built during World War II, these ships were designed to be the fastest and ...

The Montana-class battleships were a series of five planned U.S. Navy battleships intended to succeed the Iowa-class ...

None of the Iowa-class battleships will ever return to service, the latest U.S. Navy vessel named after the state was ...

The new Navy submarine, a nuclear-powered Virginia-class vessel, is the first submarine to be named for the state.

The Navy's new submarine, USS Iowa, was constructed by Groton-based General Dynamics Electric Boat and it will be based at ...

USS Iowa (SSN-797), the 24th submarine of the Virginia-class, was commissioned at Naval Submarine Base New London in Groton, ...

Armament Configuration: The submarine boasts four torpedo tubes and two Virginia Payload Tubes (VPT), which can carry Tomahawk missiles capable of striking targets over 1,200 miles away. This armament ...

Sailors aboard the Virginia-class fast attack submarine Iowa man the rails during a commissioning ceremony in Groton, Connecticut, on Saturday. (John Narewski/U.S. Navy) Advertisement ...

Sailors aboard the Virginia-class fast attack submarine Iowa man ... named after the state since the famed World War II-era battleship Iowa (BB-61). “In this coming year, this crew of proud ...