The Lexington-class battlecruisers, inspired by British ... selected two other ships (for convenience sake Constellation and Constitution) for refit into aircraft carriers, so it’s unlikely ...

What You Need to Know: The Alaska-class battlecruisers were conceived by the U.S. Navy in the 1930s to counter Germany’s fast and powerful “pocket battleships” and Japan’s rumored “super ...

The Alaska-class battlecruisers, conceived by the U.S. Navy in the 1930s to counter foreign naval developments, became a case of strategic misalignment by the time they were completed in the late ...