The hull designation seen on every vessel in the Navy tells servicepeople which ship is which and helps differentiate between ...

For the first time, an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) has delivered cargo from a base on shore to a US Navy (USN) ship at sea ... craft was Martin UAV’s V-Bat 128 – another VTOL UAS that uses ...

The US Navy is trying to retire all of its guided ... Each Sejong the Great-class ship has 128 VLS cells and 16 anti-ship missile launchers in four quad mounts. They are Aegis-equipped and provide ...

with occasional exceptions like the USS Hyman G. Rickover, named for the "Father of the Nuclear Navy." Auxiliary and support ships also have distinctive naming patterns. Submarine tenders honor ...

The U.S. Navy welcomed another littoral combat ship into its ranks. The USS Nantucket, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, was commissioned Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Charlestown Navy Ship Yard in ...

Other US Navy ships in the region have also come under Houthi fire. In early 2024, a US destroyer in the Red Sea had to use its Phalanx Close-In Weapon System, its last line of defense to missile ...

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman was involved in a collision with a merchant ship near Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday night, a Navy spokesperson said Thursday.