The U.S. Navy's new medium landing ship design, sourced from a foreign shipbuilder, was chosen to control cost overruns and ...

Many strategists, myself included, believe that unmanned surface vessels could be part of an approach to help the U.S. Navy maintain an edge over its ...

Rules for giving certain types of names to certain types of Navy ships have evolved over time. Attack submarines, for example, were once named for fish, then later for cities, and most recently (in ...

When you see videos of large Navy ships, floating fortresses cruising through the water carrying weapons and jets, it's hard to believe that a group of people somehow, somewhere came together to build ...

The Navy’s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year is its most ambitious shipbuilding push in years. After asking Congress for just six new ships in the last fiscal year, and nine in the one before ...

The newest ship in the Navy, the USS Pierre, was commissioned Saturday in Panama City, Fla.: “Welcome to the fleet,” said Navy Secretary John Phelan, who gave the keynote address. Pierre is the 19th ...

When the United States Navy ships' hull designations first appeared in 1895, ships were referred to by class followed by their series numbers, such as "Battleship 7" or "Destroyer 17," with ...

Off the coast of Shanghai, analysts caught another glimpse this week of the new warship that could forever change the history of naval warfare. "The Type 076 is significant because it brings together ...