The next-generation SSN(X) submarine is expected to deliver greater transit speed under increased stealth conditions in every ocean environment. Budgetary constraints and labor shortages have hindered ...

The U.S. Navy was formed by the Continental Congress in October 1775, and its first ship was named the Alfred after the ninth-century Saxon king. Other early vessels were named for important ...

The following is the Jan. 23, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress. From the ...

The Navy has sidelined 14 support ships as part of a broader plan to deal with a persistent civilian crew member shortage, according to the head of Military Sealift Command. The plan ...

Two U.S. Navy ships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait this week in the first such mission since President Donald Trump took office last month, drawing an angry reaction from China ...

The U.S. Navy, occasionally accompanied by ships from allied countries, transits the strait about once a month. China, which claims Taiwan as its own territory, says the strategic waterway belongs ...

The remaining three were conducted by U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. Commander Matthew Comer, Indo-Pacific Command spokesperson, told Newsweek: "Ships transit between ...

According to Reuters, the navy confirmed on Tuesday that two ships – an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer the USS Ralph Johnson and the USNS Bowditch, a survey ship – had crossed ...

A Royal Navy attack submarine surfaced close to a Russian spy ship off the UK coast in an extraordinary warning to stop spying on British undersea cables, the defence secretary has revealed.

on a Navy ship. The Navy since then has been developing and installing additional SSL prototypes with improved capability for countering surface craft and UAVs. Higher-power SSLs being developed by ...