US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the renaming of a naval vessel honouring a gay rights pioneer in a landmark ...

The US Navy has announced they will be naming a new American-class landing helicopter assault ship (LHA), the USS Fallujah, as a homage to the two bloodiest battles of the War in Iraq.

Ships in the United States Navy can fulfill their service for anywhere between 25 to 53 years, depending on the vessel. If a ship retires, it's turned over to the Navy Inactive Ships Office which ...

The U.S. Navy has used standard naming conventions for its ships and sumbarines since it was established in 1775, but who ...

A U.S. Navy Destroyer is built for eliminating threats to itself or its fleet and it has a variety of weapons to do so. Here's how far it can shoot.

We compiled data on all ships and submarines — 30 in total — that have been commissioned in the service of the U.S. Navy for five years or less and ranked them by age. It should be noted that ...

US Navy considers alternatives to unmanned boats with missiles. But piers in Japan and Guam could be destroyed, or the surrounding area could be contested enough that pierside ships would be too ...

Congress ordered the US Navy to look into new ships and weapons platforms amid shipbuilding delays. The requested study is in direct response to the delays of a new frigate class.

The United States Navy Military Sealift Command's dry cargo ship USNS Wally Schirra departs Hanwha Ocean shipyard after a seven-month overhaul at Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, on March 12, 2025.

The latest strategy document calls for a Navy of some 500 ships; around 350 would be crewed and about 150 would not be. Here's why. ... At present, the US Navy has 298 ships, ...

The U.S. Navy is well underway in scrapping its fleet of littoral combat ships. The latest to hit the chopping block is the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), which was decommissioned on Friday, Sept. 8 at ...

Sailors aboard the destroyer Spruance guide training ordnance into the ship’s forward VLS cells during a proof-of-concept event in San Diego, Calif., on Oct. 4, 2022. (MC3 Taylor Crenshaw/U.S ...