New photos show a rare 16-inch artillery shell fired from the battleship USS New Jersey. The shell was one of 5,866 fired against enemy targets during the battlewagon’s short-lived Vietnam tour ...

The battlewagon fired nearly twenty thousand shells during its tour of duty, bombarding enemy forces the way only a battleship can. The USS New Jersey was the second Iowa-class battleship ever ...

In response, the U.S. Navy explored arming its Iowa-class battleships with nuclear artillery shells known as "Katie" (Mk 23) shells in the 1950s. -These 16-inch nuclear shells had yields ...

These shells, which were ammunition for the Navy's biggest battleship guns, need to be disassembled and rendered safe. But these ships' rounds are still hanging around and they're the real deal ...

The tale of years of research that closed with the U.S. Air Force exploding a cannon shell relic from the sunken U.S. battleship Maine kept the crowd intrigued at the Tri-State Museum's First ...

Although the Katie shells were never used in combat, their presence highlighted the extent of nuclear armament strategies during the Cold War. Could the U.S. Navy’s best battleship, the Iowa ...