The 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 guns aboard the USS Wisconsin were the last ones fired from a US battleship in support of American troops ashore. And they are big — really big. The guns are 16 inches ...

Once the pride of the U.S. Navy, its four battleships are now mothballed museum attractions. But if needed, could these ...

Iowa-class battleships measured 887 feet long and displaced 58,460 tons, with crews ranging from 2,500 during WWII to 1,573 ...

The USS Wisconsin has a bit of a reputation. Not only was it one of the battleships re-commissioned for the invasion of Iraq, it was a member of the elite Iowa-class of battleships. And in Korea ...

“I live to hear that gun go boom.” The Wisconsin, the identical twin of the USS Iowa, returned to its home port of Norfolk Thursday night.

The USS Wisconsin, which was one of the last battleships the US ever built, saw combat in World War II, the Korean War, and even the Gulf War. Nicknamed "The Wisky," the Wisconsin provided cover ...

USS Wisconsin’ s main battery consisted of nine 16-inch/50 caliber Mark 7 guns in three-gun turrets, which could fire 2,700-pound (1,225 kg) armor-piercing shells some 23 miles (42.6 km).

This awesome video, shot on May 16th, 1991, documented the last time the Iowa Class Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fired off its main battery. Watching her 16 inch guns going off in a crescendo ...

The last two U.S. battleships -- the USS Iowa and the USS Wisconsin -- have been decommissioned and reactivated several times in their 60-year history. Now they are facing their final deactivation ...

If it comes to a shooting war, the crew of the battleship Wisconsin will fire shells made in 1937 out of a gun forged in 1943 from a ship that was commissioned in 1944. Yet many of the 1,500 crew m… ...

History 13News Now Vault: USS Wisconsin then and now In December of 2000, the battleship would find a new home, and a new purpose in downtown Norfolk.

The guns were so powerful, Way said, that they recoiled four feet when fired, and the blast pressure would push the water out, creating the illusion that the ship was moving sideways.