After finishing my last article on the inability of the US Navy to build frigates, I was hopeful that I could have a bit of a ...

The recently announced “Trump” class of battleships is cast as the world’s largest and most powerful ships. But these ships ...

Critics have rightly lambasted the Zumwalt-class destroyers as “ships without a mission,” plagued by technological overreach and operational irrelevance. There has been a strange push to claim the ...

The trip included a brief controversy in which Iran accused the ship of entering its waters, a claim denied by the U.S.

US President Donald Trump said he has approved a plan for the US Navy (USN) “to begin the construction of two brand-new, very large, the largest we've ever ...

The fundamental concept behind the new frigate is sound, and the Navy’s goal of having the first one built in three years may ...

Huntington Ingalls Industries has delivered the guided missile destroyer USS Ted Stevens to the the U.S. Navy, the company ...

The Battle of Leyte Gulf was the largest naval engagement in history, a sprawling affair that lasted from Oct. 23 to 26, 1944, involving four major engagements. In spite of hopeless odds, Japanese Adm ...

In late December 2025, the U.S. Navy announced plans to pursue a new class of large surface combatants described as Trump-class battleships, marking the first time in decades the service has publicly ...

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China’s surface combatants are set to receive a new hypersonic anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM) capability following the ...