The U.S. Navy currently has 296 battle force ships. The Navy’s goal is to achieve a fleet of either 355 or 381 manned battle force ships. The goal of a 355-ship Navy became U.S. policy in the fiscal ...

The research and development initiative is designed to strengthen naval capabilities in autonomous underwater operations.

Neil Frye was a 20-year-old mess attendant from Vass, N.C., aboard the USS West Virginia when a Japanese torpedo sank it in ...

The first Chinese Type 054B frigate started training exercises less than two months after being put into service.

Mess Attendant 3rd Class Neil Daniel Frye was 19 when he died during Pearl Harbor. Eight five years later, he's returning ...

The Littoral Combat Ships carrying the first two operational mine countermeasure packages deployed earlier this month after ...

A Navy destroyer has deployed to the Gulf of America on a mission usually reserved for the U.S. Coast Guard to help deter ...

The 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the America Amphibious Ready Group completed their first patrol of 2025 as a ...

SAS Amatola (F145) completed a seven-week Operation Corona maritime tasking which saw a diversion to Durban to pay South African naval respects to the newest guided missile stealth frigate in the ...

This spring, the Defiant will embark upon a multi-month demonstration that will test the craft’s autonomy, endurance, and ...

HMS Somerset tracked the suspected Russian spy ship, Yantar, in January, while Royal Navy ships last month tracked six Russian naval and merchant ships carrying ammunition used in Syria through ...

For most of the 20th century, virtually every naval ship had asbestos aboard in some capacity. Now, the U.S. Navy is the military branch believed to have the highest rate of mesothelioma, a cancer ...