“It was an honor to get to walk on her decks and see the 16-inch guns. A person is quite proud to be an American when you see a ship like her,” he said. Why didn’t the USS New Jersey have a ...

The USS New Jersey (BB-62 ... In less than a year, the New Jersey fired an astounding 12 million pounds of munitions, including nearly 6,000 16-inch shells, effectively destroying enemy ...

The Iowa-class briefly found new life during the 1980s and 1990s ... She only reached the Pacific theater in late 1944. USS Missouri, the most iconic in the class owing to images from the ...

What the Navy could really use for these operations is a new version of the USS White River ... was moved aft and the 5-inch gun turret placed directly in front of it. The armament was also ...

Over at Popular Mechanics, Kyle Mizokami reports on a video clip (see below) posted by Ryan Szimanski, curator of the USS New Jersey Museum and Memorial, Camden, New Jersey. Last spring, New Jersey ...

New Jersey probably could be made into a floating gun barge that was once again ready to blast targets with its nine 16-inch Mark 7 guns. USS Missouri launches a Tomahawk cruise missile ...

(Photo: Idaho National Laboratory) "The guns came from such fighting ships as USS Missouri and USS Wisconsin, whose revolving armored turrets, studded with 16-inch guns, the Navy's most powerful ...

Get ready to witness history! The Navy will christen the USS New Jersey, a state-of-the-art Virginia-class fast attack ...

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the USS New Jersey is the first in its class specifically designed for a fully ...

New Jersey's Sandy Hook Bay witnessed the commissioning of the most complex warfare machine ever built in the country — the USS New Jersey ... code-named BB-16 and BB-62, were battleships ...

New Jersey's Sandy Hook Bay witnessed the commissioning of the most complex warfare machine ever built in the country — the USS New Jersey, now dubbed as the fastest submarine in the U.S. fleet and ...