The E-7 could solve Navy-specific problems and boost operations.

Three Louisiana-based shipyards will build unmanned surface vessels for the U.S. Navy following recent at-sea testing, the service announced Tuesday.  The three companies – Saronic, HII and Galliano M...

The future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) achieved preliminary acceptance Tuesday, one of the last steps before it formally joins the fleet, as carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) prepares for its mid-...

The only thing Hoser wanted was to be the best fighter pilot—and to teach others how to do it.

The future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN-79) achieved preliminary acceptance Tuesday, one of the last steps before the aircraft carrier formally joins the Navy fleet. JFK, the second Ford-class carrier, wi...

The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group quietly departed Monday from San Diego for a scheduled deployment, USNI News has learned. Big-deck amphibious warship USS Makin Island (LHD-8), the flagship of ...

This post will be updated as new information becomes available. Four personnel were injured in a landing mishap aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) on Monday, USNI News has learned. The crew of t...

Sailboat racing offers surface warfare officers practical training in seamanship, leadership, and tactical judgment.

The European Union is asking its members to increase the number of ships deployed with European Naval Force Aspides, which is tasked with accompanying merchant ships in the Red Sea to protect them fro...

Chinese forces rehearsed enforcing Beijing’s claim to Scarborough Shoal with drones and boarding drills on Sunday amid state media claims that China has extended its control of several contested marit...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Sept. 28, 2026, based on Navy and public data. In cases in ...

Carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) quietly departed Sunday from San Diego to sail across the Pacific for what is expected to be an extended Middle East deployment, USNI News has learned. The carr...

NHHC has confirmed a wreck off Russia’s Kurile Islands as USS Herring (SS-233), lost in June 1944 with all 83 crew members.

From the river-crossing retreat of the 1930s to the island invasions of the ’40s and ’50s, Communist China’s amphibious capabilities have been 90 years in the making.

On 23 June 2026, North Korea commissioned the Choe Hyon, the first of four heavily armed destroyers introducing powerful new naval strike capabilities to their fleet.

WASHINGTON NAVY YARD – Navy shore infrastructure will be in failing condition by 2037 if the sea service continues to use its current funding schedule, the new deputy chief of naval operations told US...

Chinese warships and cutters blocked a Philippine resupply mission to Second Thomas Shoal on Thursday in the most significant development at the disputed South China Sea feature. The People’s Liberati...

 The following is a summary of major ship movements and exercises in the Western Pacific over the last week. In U.S. 7th Fleet Area of Operations The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is und...

Without careful consideration of the limits of robotics, the Navy risks building brittle uncrewed platforms and falling short of its uncrewed objectives.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Not quite two months on the job, a submariner turned head of the Navy’s vast maintenance operation promised his office would create a more nimble organization that would better b...

The U.S Navy recently demonstrated that an autonomous aircraft can receive a mission plan and execute that mission as part of the Collaborative Autonomy Mission Planning (CAMP) tool, the service annou...

The following is the Sept. 23, 2026, Congressional Research Service report, Bahrain: Issues for U.S. Policy. From the Report The Kingdom of Bahrain is a small island nation connected by a causeway to ...

Clinical AI can transform military medicine: The advantages, the evidence, and the framework all exist. What is needed is organizational commitment.

NEW IBERIA, Louisiana – Surrounded by rows of sugar cane fields on Bayou Teche, generations of shipbuilders are wrenching on the U.S. Navy’s latest push toward a future drone fleet. Work boat builders...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — The ongoing U.S. conflict with Iran is morphing how the Navy fixes and supplies ships operating thousands of miles from logistics hubs as extended time at sea and the prospect of...

The Navy should establish permanent information warfare commanders at fleet maritime operations centers.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – An ex-Taiwan Coast Guard Administration patrol vessel is now under a Philippine flag in the most significant maritime security development between Taipei and Manila in recent yea...

North Korea test launched a new weapon over the weekend that appears to be a hypersonic missile, according to photos released Tuesday by state media Korean Central News Agency. North Korea’s Missile A...

The Marine Corps has envisioned robotics battalions. Now it must fund and staff them.

Navy public works maintenance teams will now be under Commander, Navy Installations Command instead of the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command, the sea service announced Tuesday. The move put...

The U.S. and U.K. test launched a torpedo from a Royal Navy extra-large unmanned underwater vehicle earlier this month as a proof of concept trial for AUKUS Pillar 2, the U.S. Navy announced on Tuesda...

The following is the U.K.’s Defense Nuclear Enterprise 2026 Annual Update to Parliament, released Sept. 15, 2026. From the Report Introduction The UK’s nuclear deterrent, delivered since 1969 by the R...

A U.S. destroyer refueled an Unmanned Surface Vessel earlier this month in the Pacific as part of the Navy’s latest development effort to hone at-sea drone sustainment, the sea service announced Monda...

Submarine fiber-optic cables are critical infrastructure supporting the global economy and geopolitical stability.

U.S. forces with Joint Task Force Western Hemisphere struck a go-fast vessel allegedly carrying illicit narcotics on Friday, killing four people aboard. The strike – the 70th since President Donald Tr...

The head of the Royal Navy called for Britain to expand its maritime capabilities and strengthen the U.K.-led Joint Expeditionary Force coalition in preparation for a potential conflict with Russia in...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Sept. 21, 2026, based on Navy and public data. In cases in ...

The U.S. Army contracted the first batch of Precision Strike Missiles designed to strike moving maritime targets last week. Lockheed Martin was awarded $1.2 billion by the ground branch for work on th...

The planes of Task Force 38 attacking the Japanese Center Force during Leyte managed to sink the mighty battleship Musashi—yet the Center Force lived to fight another day.

Rear Admiral Robert Krasner uses the 1898 Paquete Habana case and Lieutenant Commander William Bronaugh’s suicide to warn of moral injury when service members operate under uncertain legal authority.

Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), the embarked Carrier Air Wing 9 and the guided-missile destroyer USS Frank Petersen (DDG-121) pulled into Guam on Saturday, according to a statement from U.S. 7th...

Stephen P. Phillips’s A Poisoned Chalice offers a deeply researched, accessible history of Operation Earnest Will and the 1987–88 Tanker War.

Non-Iranian linked transits through the Strait of Hormuz climbed to 97 last week, according to preliminary data from London-based Lloyd’s List Intelligence. While the final number will be adjusted as ...

The following is a summary of major ship movements and exercises in the Western Pacific over the last week.  In the Philippine Sea The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is conducting routine operat...

Chinese and Philippine maritime forces were involved in a ramming incident on Friday off Manila’s western island province. The incident is the latest high-profile skirmish between China and the Philip...

Combat readiness demands tough training, not risk aversion.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy is using virtual counseling to help meet the mental health needs of its sailors, a panel of suicide prevention experts told reporters Thursday. There are currently 54 virtual...