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 ...

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 ...

Photo courtesy Edward Lundquist HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully undocked USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000), the lead ship of the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class of guided missile destroyers on ...

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 ...

As Houthi rebels based in Yemen launched swarms of drones and missiles against civilian targets across the region, the carriers USS ... than 370 ships, the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN ...

The survivors of the attack on the USS ... the ship's history is still inconvenient for the U.S government, according to the ship's survivors. Joe Meadors, a Liberty survivor and Navy signalman ...

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 ...

Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance with rules prescribed by Congress.

In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on a Navy ship. The Navy since ... and was installed ...