Photos show the USS Laffey still sitting upright on the seafloor with much of her bow and midsection intact despite more than ...

Senator Mike Rounds says South Dakota is treated well in the new National Defense Authorization Act, which just passed the ...

Funding for the B-21 bomber program, construction money to support it at a base near Rapid City, and money for a Watertown National Guard vehicle maintenance building are ...

The Senate Armed Services Committee has advanced the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 with $406 ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the ...

Austal USA delivered the future USS Pierre (LCS 38) to the U.S. Navy this past Friday, the second ship delivered by the ...

On the night of November 14, 1942, the Pacific became the stage for an intense naval showdown as battleships USS South Dakota and Washington, under Vice-Admiral Willis A. Lee, moved to intercept a ...

The USS South Dakota (BB 57) is honored with a museum and mock-up of the ship in Sioux Falls, located on Kiwanis Avenue and West 12th Street. The mission of Battleship South Dakota Memorial is to ...

Aboard the Virginia-class submarine USS South Dakota, culinary specialists work in tight quarters to prepare meals for up to 150 crew members.

Summary: The USS Alabama was the final of four powerful South Dakota-class battleships built for the US Navy in the 1930s. Though designed earlier, treaty restrictions delayed her construction ...

The South Dakota-Class – the First Post-Treaty U.S. Navy Battleships – In the late 1930s, with the clouds of war on the horizon and the Washington Naval Treaty and subsequent London Naval ...