Adm. James Kilby, the acting chief of naval operations, told BI that cheaper air defense solutions are needed to preserve ...

Substandard repairs and a slow bureaucracy have caused U.S. Navy ships to sit in repair yards for years without being ...

The Navy wants to buy 19 ships in fiscal year 2026, but delays, aging shipyards, and new threats may upset those plans.

General Dynamics Bath Iron Works announced on 1 August 2025 that the US Navy has exercised an option to add an additional ...

As one of the most powerful military branches in the history of the world, the US Navy is a force to be reckoned with.

His death further delayed the return to action of a submarine that epitomizes the Navy’s struggles to maintain its ...

The US Navy's next-gen DDG(X) destroyer is designed to outgun China's rising fleet, but soaring costs, shaky tech and ...

As they became increasingly impractical, battleships are no longer used by the U.S. Navy. The corvette is another prominent type of ship that isn't currently employed by the American force. In a ...

While the US Navy isn’t the largest in the world in terms of the number of ships, it has 11 aircraft carriers, 15 cruisers, 74 destroyers, 25 frigates, 68 nuclear submarines, and an active-duty ...

Here’s a look at the firepower that the US Navy has in and around the Middle East, per a spox; one aircraft carrier and multiple surface warships — all of which are capable of air defense. pic ...

BEIJING (AP) — A ruling Chinese Communist Party newspaper on Monday denounced the passage of a pair of U.S. Navy ships through the Taiwan Strait as a "psychological game," as the two sides ...