Battlecruisers were a unique class of warship designed to combine the heavy guns of a battleship with the speed of a cruiser, a compromise achieved by sacrificing armor protection. -This “speed is ...

USS Lexington: The Battlecruiser That Became a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Summary: The USS Lexington, a trailblazer in U.S. naval aviation, was discovered in 2018, lying two miles beneath the ...

4 Points You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy might have begun World War II with faster battlecruisers had it prioritized building them after World War I, instead of slow, heavily armored battleships.