The U.S. Navy retired its last Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships this week in Bahrain, ending a legacy of over three ...

After decades of setbacks and early retirements, the Navy’s most ridiculed ship is finally doing its job: hunting mines and ...

Sailors at Naval Support Activity Bahrain bid farewell to the last of their wooden-hulled mine hunting ships in a handoff to ...

Then, in July 2016, the USS Freedom, one of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships (LCS), sailed off to participate in the world’s largest naval exercise, RIMPAC. The LCS class was promised as a naval ...

A noteworthy fact about the Avenger-class minesweepers is that their hulls are constructed of wood—so as to avoid metal hull ...

A ship Austal USA didn’t get to build tells a story about the challenges facing the Mobile-based shipbuilder today. Between ...

The Chinese government approved a proposal on Wednesday to create a national nature reserve at Scarborough Shoal.

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

Civil society groups are urging the government to make Budget 2026 more transparent and people-centred, with stronger focus ...

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. George Wikoff, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) and U.S. 5th Fleet (C5F) presided ...

The Independence-class littoral mission vessel, RSS Fearless , seen here patrolling the Singapore Strait. Singapore is progressively deploying the Veloce 60 UAV across the class. (Janes/Ridzwan Rahmat ...

Trump wants battleships back in the Navy's inventory, and that may be far-fetched, but his remarks do highlight real ...