The USS Nimitz aircraft carrier has made headlines for its planned retirement, but several other U.S. Navy ships are set to be decommissioned in 2026.

The large-scale buildup of U.S. military forces and assets in the Caribbean suggests that the Trump administration is ...

The Rules, the Decider, and the Tradition Since 1819, Congress has said Navy ships are to be named by the Secretary of t ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday ordered the USS Gerald R. Ford, named after the only president from Michigan, to the ...

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 Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull might not be ideally suited for that purpose.

With so many sailors in the United States Navy, is it possible for them to serve aboard the same ship their entire career?

A U.S. military ship on Sunday docked in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, amid tensions in the Caribbean sparked by U.S.

The names, hull numbers, and abbreviations that come before a warship's name have been going on for centuries, making the tradition of naming a ship, in a word — complicated. For instance, ships in ...

China’s newest aircraft carrier may only be able to conduct air operations at about 60% the rate of a 50-year-old US Navy ...

Declassified footage of Friday’s strike shows a vessel floating in international waters when a bomb is dropped on the ship, ...