The U.S. Navy plans to build two facilities in the Philippines for repairing and maintaining Philippine military boats. The U ...

For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard ...

The Mexican navy ship Cuauhtémoc could be part of the Sail4th 250 festival if the National Transportation Safety Board ...

The presence of USS Michael Monsoor in the western Pacific follows China's deployment of two aircraft carriers in the region.

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The Navy is relying on the combination of the annual defense budget and supplemental legislation to buy 19 new ships in 2026, an increase from the five ships purchased in 2025 and eight ships ...

A Navy plan to buy at least eight more replenishment oilers for $6.75 billion has raised doubts whether the service will be able to crew the ships when they’re ready. The oilers are critical to ...

The United States Navy has used the same standards to assign names and hull numbers to its vessels for more than a century. What does BB mean on Navy ships?

The U.S. Navy tests its under-construction ships over and over, probing for weaknesses in everything from design to construction. Here's how it does it.

President Donald Trump’s administration is planning to rename the USNS Harvey Milk. Historians say renaming ships for ideological reasons is uncommon.

The Chinese Navy's frequent incursions into Korea's maritime juridiction have brought surveillence vessels in proximity to U.S. military bases on the peninsula, raising concerns over intelligence ...

In 2020, the Navy issued a requirement for a more distributed fleet architecture that would comprise a minimum of 382 ships and at least 143 unmanned units.