The Navy’s destroyers get a lot of the dirty ... U.S. destroyers, the “tin can fleet,” are generally named after naval heroes. MacDonald’s can, the O’Bannon, is named after a marine.

Another major advantage is that testing can begin before the ship is even constructed. By testing scaled models of a ship's design, the Navy can identify a ship's weaknesses throughout the design ...

A Philippine ship from World War II sank on Monday hours ahead of a joint military exercise between the United States and the ...