Have you ever seen a Navy ship bearing letters and numbers like DDG-51 or DD-214 and wondered what those codes mean? These ship labels might look random, but they follow a system that's been ...

China has “the world’s leading hypersonic missile arsenal” that can threaten U.S. Navy ships, according to the Defense Department’s most recent report on Chinese military power.

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...

There's a long history of tradition in the United States Navy, which covers everything from uniforms to the naming of ships. Often, naval vessels receive their names based on a theme; modern ...

A pair of French Navy ships are spending five days in New Orleans as part of a training mission for 700 French sailors and officers. The annual Jeanne d'Arc mission makes its first U.S. stop in ...

Ships from the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group sail in formation, December 2023. (MC2 Nolan Pennington/U.S. Navy) President Donald Trump on April 9 signed ...

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The USS Minneapolis St. Paul set sail from naval station, Mayport, in Florida last week. It is the ship’s maiden deployment. Minnesota Navy League’s Brian Skon gives us an update.

For years, pictures shared on social media have shown U.S. Navy ships covered in rust, making them look like they’d been at sea for far too long. Now, Navy Secretary John Phelan said he has a ...

Other than the ability to navigate the seas, Navy ship design and cruise ship design don’t appear to have much in common. But a Finnish company’s software innovations for cruise ships are increasingly ...