On December 5, 1945, fourteen experienced pilots took off from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The men, aboard five U.S. Navy ...

General Dynamics Mission Systems has been awarded a contract by the US Navy to manufacture advanced electronics for the MK 54 MOD 1 lightweight torpedoes. The fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed ...

Long languishing in the dark depths of the Pacific Ocean, the sunken aircraft carrier USS Yorktown has held secrets for 83 ...

USS Yorktown (CV-5)—an aircraft carrier commissioned in September 1937 and sunk in October 1942—was equipped with 24 Oerlikon ...

The US Navy's next aircraft carrier is almost finished but faces challenges with its elevators, among other technology. The advanced weapons elevators were previously an issue on the first-in ...

The Army has access to tanks and ground forces, the Navy has domain over the ocean, the Marine Corps is an expeditionary force trained in a variety of missions, and the Air Force rules the skies.

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial ...

(US Navy) The US Navy (USN) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) intercepted a simulated hypersonic target during a joint test and evaluation exercise on 24 March off the coast of Hawaii ...

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said it was up to Iran to decide whether the recent US movement of B-2 bombers was a message to Tehran, as he voiced hope that US-Iran negotiations over Tehran ...

The US Navy carried out airstrikes against the Ras Isa fuel port in Yemen, killing 38 and wounding 102, according to Houthi officials. These strikes are the latest move in a months-long effort to ...

In February 2023, during routine operations off the coast of Southern California, the crew of the US Navy’s Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Jackson recorded a sequence of ...

(John Narewski/U.S. Navy) The Navy formally unleashed its newest ... chamber for special operations divers and a reconfigurable torpedo room. The submarine can also deliver unmanned undersea ...