Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy's Lexington-class battlecruisers were authorized in 1916 as America's answer to the global naval arms race. -These massive ships were designed to combine the ...
Key point: There are always trade-offs and modern warships are no different. “There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,” said Admiral Beatty as he watched his battlecruisers blow ...
Had the U.S. Navy made different, better choices at the end of World War I, it might have begun World War II with battlecruisers that could have supported its fast carrier groups. The names of these ...
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