with occasional exceptions like the USS Hyman G. Rickover, named for the "Father of the Nuclear Navy." Auxiliary and support ships also have distinctive naming patterns. Submarine tenders honor ...

USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) conducts a tracking exercise with Italian and Ghana navy ships in the Gulf of Guinea. by Official U.S. Navy Imagery / BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org ...

The Navy has disclosed ... of aerial drones, anti-ship cruise missiles, and anti-ship ballistic missiles. “When I was in Bahrain as [the Destroyer Squadron 50 commanding officer] 10 years ago, the ...

Barely clothed Marines huddled exhausted next to their coffin-style bunks stacked to the ceiling below deck on the USS Boxer after midnight in March 2016. They were extremely tired after a long ...

Commissioned on Sept. 7, 1968, the USS JFK was the first Navy ship named for the famed president and "last conventionally powered aircraft carrier built by the U.S. Navy," according to Naval Sea ...

as his tenure as the Navy’s top civilian comes to an end. Del Toro dubbed the Medium Landing Ship the McClung class, with USS McClung (LSM-1) as the lead ship. The vessel is named after Marine ...

Wilfredo Barrera, a seaman from the destroyer USS Donald Cook ... some of the least desirable jobs on the ship. Sailors can't continue in the Navy without a rate. If a sailor doesn't find a ...

according to the Navy. On the Arleigh Burke class USS Fitzgerald, ERM v4 evaluated about 10,000 sensor readings per second coming from the ship’s hull, mechanical and electrical (HME) systems, with AI ...

This week the Navy announced that it had upgraded the Freedom-class littoral combat ship the USS Indianapolis to fire radar-guided AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles for counter-unmanned aircraft ...

A helicopter from Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 74 airlifted 24 civilian mariners from the ship to Philippine Sea. • In February 2023, the Philippine Sea joined the USS Oscar Austin and ...