battleship
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"I call Walmart the battleship, and I call Aldi a kind of submarine."
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
The battleship was supplanted as king of the seas in the 1940s by the aircraft carrier.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Huntington Ingalls Industries and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, which build the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and had been designing a new generation of destroyers, are now designing the new Trump-class battleship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 12, 2026
Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.
From Salon ● May 8, 2026
A radioman from K Company had set up against the seawall and was railing loudly about interference; every time battleship guns were fired offshore even the static died out, he complained.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
FDR’s “arsenal of democracy” produced External link 10 battleships, 27 carriers, 211 submarines, and 310,000 aircraft to help win the war and establish Pax Americana.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Hegseth and Trump were frustrated by his lack of progress in implementing shipbuilding reforms to create Trump’s so-called “Golden Fleet,” led by the theoretical new “Trump-class” battleships.
From Salon ● May 1, 2026
The U.S. has moved the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier along with other battleships and advanced fighters to the region.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026
Like other remaining battleships, the Missouri now serves as a museum ship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2026
Far above them, the pilot counted eight battleships, the Pacific Fleet’s full complement.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
