Big deck amphibious warship USS Tripoli (LHA-7) and its embarked Marines are heading to the Middle East as the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran enters its third week, two defense officials confirmed to USNI ...
USS Nimitz, a 50+ year-old aircraft carrier for the Navy, will be leaving Washington waters for the last time as the Navy plans to retire the vessel.
The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier, which is scheduled to begin the retirement process this year, is back at sea.
Composite Training Unit Exercise, or COMPTUEX, readies naval task forces for sustained combat and results in recommendations for deployment.
The Navy’s oldest aircraft carrier is sailing to Norfolk, Va., ahead of its planned decommissioning later this year, the ...
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, leading to the United States formally declaring war on Japan and the outbreak of ...
The gunboat sank during the Revolutionary War and wasn't found for 159 years. The Smithsonian is sprucing it up for America's 250th birthday.
Although the US Navy has 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in active service, only around half are deployed at any given time—with the rest in port or undergoing maintenance. The United States Navy ...
"Rising from its watery grave after being sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived torpedoes, bombs, shells, and two atomic blasts." ...
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A short history of naval torpedoes

The first moving naval “torpedo” was physically attached to the submarine that used it—with perhaps predictable results.
State-of-the-art technology has revealed the 19th-century wreckage site of the USS Monitor in stunning new highest resolution images.