What does a modern navy call its heavyweight when the old battleship is long gone? The U.S. Navy’s answer is not a revival of Iowa-class steel, but a destroyer that concentrates sensing, power ...

Britain’s last Royal Navy vessel in the Middle East was sent home weeks before the outbreak of war against Iran. HMS Middleton was dispatched from Bahrain in late January, some seven weeks before the ...

The U.S. said this week that it attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. In the 1980s, Iranian ...

Iran has threatened to set oil and gas infrastructure in the Middle East “on fire” if its energy sites are attacked.

Iran is militarily far better equipped than its Houthi proxies in Yemen, which caused considerable damage and disruption in the Red Sea between November 2023 and January 2025. Armed by Iran, the ...

Horatio Nelson is famous for besting Napoleon at sea. But what did he mean by “Kiss me, Hardy”—his supposed last words?

The head of Iraq’s ports company said that 38 crew members of two foreign oil tankers were rescued after an Iranian attack set them ablaze in Iraq’s territorial waters in the Gulf. Also, three vessels ...

Whether any mines had been laid in the Strait of Hormuz since the war began on Feb. 28 is unclear. The Pentagon said 140 ...

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Blue Water Autonomy's Liberty Class autonomous ships are poised to revolutionize Marine Corps Expeditionary Advanced Base ...

Israel says it launched “broad-scale wave of strikes” against Tehran; Dubai flights briefly suspended after drone ‘incident’; Putin speaks with Iran’s president. Follow live updates.

In December 2015, dramatic footage of a Royal New Zealand Navy patrol vessel crashing into towering Southern Ocean waves spread rapidly online. The ship was HMNZS Otago, an offshore patrol vessel ...