The USS John F. Kennedy set sail for its shipbuilder sea trials Wednesday, allowing HII to test the vessel out at sea for the ...

The surface force will net a total of seven Littoral Combat Ships after the Navy shelved plans to decommission the hulls ...

The United States is bringing back something it is calling a battleship, but the defining feature of the new Trump class is ...

When the United States Navy ships' hull designations first appeared in 1895, ships were referred to by class followed by their series numbers, such as "Battleship 7" or "Destroyer 17," with ...

Iowa-Class aircraft carriers were meant to be massive, mobile battle stations that could turn the tide of a war. Here's why it didn't quite work out that way.

The U.S. Navy’s once-troubled Zumwalt-class destroyer is making a dramatic return to the seas, now redesigned as a hypersonic ...

The U.S. Navy is constantly in the business of modernizing its force, refreshing older hulls, and pushing new technologies into service The most recent commissionings and additions include advanced ...

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 ...

Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of ...

The US Navy does not need the Trump-class vessel—and is unlikely to ever get it.

Rules for giving certain types of names to certain types of Navy ships have evolved over time. Attack submarines, for example, were once named for fish, then later for cities, and most recently (in ...

The question sounds superficial but I genuinely am not confident the navy can do this anymore for a large number of reasons, and a second (or is it third) failure of the DDGX program would effectively ...