Cameraman Norman Alley was napping on the gunboat's deck when Japanese bombs started falling around him. The Universal News cameraman grabbed his camera and began filming as explosions ripped through ...

President Donald Trump scrambled Navy ship-naming traditions last week with his announcement of a new “Trump-class” battleship, to be called the USS Defiant, featuring nuclear-tipped missiles and ...

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 ...

The Navy has suffered significant losses from 13 fires on ships undergoing maintenance since 2008. The Navy investigated these fires, including one on board the USS Bonhomme Richard in 2020. Based on ...

On December 22, President Trump announced a new class of “battleships” that will be 100 times more powerful than previous battleships and larger than any other surface combatant on the oceans. The ...

A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS) was launched from the flight deck of littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara while operating in the Persian Gulf on Dec. 16, 2025. In a press release, ...

A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized military-related articles headed to Iran from China, U.S. officials said, a rare interdiction operation at sea ...

The USS Thomas Hudner is the latest warship to arrive in the region as airstrikes on suspected drug boats continue. By Nicholas Slayton Published Dec 6, 2025 5:04 PM EST Half a year after it was in ...

It’s a big deal whenever an aircraft carrier loses a plane during a deployment. In a six-month span while deployed to the Red Sea this year, the USS Harry S. Truman lost three F/A-18 Super Hornets, ...

CLEVELAND — The U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of the future USS Cleveland (LCS 31), the final Freedom-variant littoral combat ship, marking the end of more than two decades of construction on the ...

WASHINGTON CITY, Utah — A flag recovered from the USS Utah, the first ship sunk at Pearl Harbor, now rests in Washington City Hall as the community prepares to honor the vessel's legacy on Pearl ...

China on Thursday warned countries not to stir up any trouble around Taiwan after reports that a New Zealand naval vessel transited the strait between the island and the mainland earlier this month.