The USS Santa Barbara and USS Tulsa, which are homeported in Bahrain, arrived in Singapore this week.

Four Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships stationed in Bahrain were decommissioned in 2025 after each serving for over 30 ...

The U.S. Navy decommissioned its only four minesweepers in the Middle East last year, but still maintains other countermine ...

Littoral Combat Ships USS Tulsa (LCS-16) and USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) were docked Sunday in Malaysia, well away from the ships’ homeport Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The two Independence-variant ...

The Independence-class littoral combat ships were seen docked at Penang amid worries that Iran may mine the Strait of Hormuz.

The U.S. Navy is looking to increase its order of next-generation anti-submarine mines to “meet operational requirements,” according to a recent contract modification. The sea service is requesting ...

On the morning of April 14, 1988, the USS Samuel B. Roberts, an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate cruising through the ...

The U.S. said this week that it attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. In the 1980s, Iranian ...

Reopening the Strait of Hormuz could take months and require underwater robots, laser-equipped helicopters, and elite Navy ...

The Strait of Hormuz is a waterway bordered in the north by Iran that carries about a fifth of the world’s oil supply ...

A video posted by the U.S. Central Command showed munitions striking nine vessels, most of which were moored at the time. Whether any mines have been laid in Gulf waters was unclear.

Anti-ship missiles get the headlines, and torpedoes get the fear factor. But for the U.S. Navy, the more persistent danger since World War II has often come from a far cheaper weapon hiding below the ...