NASA在2005年的时候发现了一个太阳系外的类地行星，并判断其上可能存在智慧生命。为了能与外星智慧生物接触，NASA启动“灯塔计划”，在夏威夷启用深空通信阵列基地，向其发射高功率信号进行试探。几年后，外星飞船不期而至。身处夏威夷的太平洋联合海军演习舰队受命进行接触。男主角海军中尉阿历克斯（泰勒·克奇 Taylor Kitsch 饰）所在的导弹驱逐舰及其他两艘军舰被作为侦查小队，受命接触外星舰船。却因此受到攻击，损失惨重。由于外星舰船展开的护盾原因，联合舰队的其他舰船无法实施支援，完全只能靠自己苦苦支撑。最后，三艘现代舰船被全部摧毁。由于无船可用，但是又必须摧毁被外星人占领的通讯站，只能启用被改为海上博物馆的密苏里号战列舰进行最后的攻击。二战时期的王牌战列舰对阵外星高科技舰船，谁能胜出？地球的命运到底如何？

The Yamato and its lesser-known sister-ship Musashi were designed in the 1930s to take on American battleships in a climactic duel for control of the Pacific. Neither vessel ever saw a US Navy battleship, but by the time they were committed in the final battles of 1944–45, both would face overwhelming American naval air power. By 1944, the US Navy had combined its rugged Avenger torpedo-bombers with an improved air-launched weapon to create a formidable ship-killing capability. Augmenting the Avengers was the US Navy's newest dive-bomber, the Helldiver, which also proved rugged in service and carried a fairly large bomb load. When the Japanese committed both of their super battleships in the defense of the Philippines in October 1944, the power of American carrier aircraft proved sufficient to sink Musashi. Only months later, in April 1945, American aircraft repeated their performance against Yamato.

USS Iowa (BB-61) was the lead ship in one of the most famous classes of battleships ever commissioned into the US Navy. Transferred to the Pacific Fleet in 1944, the Iowa first fired her guns in anger in the Marshall Islands campaign, and sunk her first enemy ship, the Katori. The Iowa went on to serve across a number of pivotal Pacific War campaigns, including at the battles of the Philippine Sea and Leyte Gulf. It ended the war spending several months bombarding the Japanese Home Islands before the surrender in August 1945.After taking part in the Korea War, the Iowa was decommissioned in 1958, before being briefly reactivated in the 1980s as part of President Reagan's 600-Ship Navy Plan. After being decommissioned a second and final time in 1990, the Iowa is now a museum ship in Los Angeles. This new addition to the Anatomy of the Ship series is illustrated with contemporary photographs, scaled plans of the ship and superb 3D illustrations which bring this historic battleship to life.

伊丽莎白女王级战列舰为一战期间英国最先进的一级战列舰，也是英国皇家海军首批装备15英寸舰炮的战列舰。