This story was updated June 23, 2021. The U.S. Navy may not have the most ships of any country's fleet, but it is well established as the greatest power on the world's seas. The Navy owns 11 of ...

A modified Littoral Combat Ship design based on the Lockheed Martin Freedom-class. US Navy Image. The two hulls will feature an unspecified 3D radar upgrade, an over-the-horizon surface to surface ...

The Constellation-class frigate was supposed to replace the aging Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates now in service. However, ...

U.S. Navy Sets Sights on Fleet-Wide Anti-Torpedo Weapon Rollout in Coming Years. The hard-kill weapon is known as the Mk58 ...

Task Force 66 is on the front lines of the Navy's efforts to learn innovative and asymmetric warfighting tactics like those ...

In the past two and a half months, the Navy has experienced the worst peacetime surface ship collisions in over 41 years. Two recent collisions—first the USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), then the USS ...

Four U.S. Navy ships and a U.K. Royal Navy ship sailed into frigid Arctic waters of the Barents Sea on May 4 to conduct maritime security operations.. It’s the first time a U.S. Navy surface ...

The destroyer Pinckney operate in the Caribbean. Maintenance of surface ships suffered in 2020, a new report shows. (MC3 Erick Parsons/U.S. Navy) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet ...

This isn’t the first system a U.S. Navy ship has used to block a drone threat. During a transit through the Strait of Hormuz in 2019, amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD-4) downed an Iranian ...

For INSURV, ships are graded across a wide variety of systems, with scores adding up to a “figure of merit” where perfect equals 1.0. Over more than 30 surface ship inspections in 2019, the ...

The rising oceans of the 2040s will be battlefields for both crewed ships and robotic ones. In a document called Force Design 2045, the US Navy’s strategy guiding the next decades of ship and ...