Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89) transits San Diego Bay past Point Loma, Feb. 23, 2026. US Navy photo Destroyer USS Mustin (DDG-89) recently departed San Diego to ...
They survived the fall of Bataan, endured years of Japanese captivity, and were crammed into the suffocating hold of a transport ship headed for forced labor in Japan. Then American bombs hit the ...
Eight decades after the Oryoku Maru was sunk by American bombs, specialist divers are returning to retrieve the 250 men still trapped inside.
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, leading to the United States formally declaring war on Japan and the outbreak of ...
The U.S. Navy has reached a Cold War-era milestone in the Arctic, deploying two Virginia-class submarines beneath the polar ...
Although battleships were replaced by aircraft carriers by the end of World War II, they remain a testament to a bygone era of warfare—and a symbol of their nations’ might. For nearly half a century, ...
The U.S. and Iran are offering sharply conflicting accounts of the March 4 sinking of the Iranian warship IRIS Dena in the Indian Ocean near Sri Lanka.
CVN-68 began a homeport shift to Naval Station Norfolk, Va., as part of a long-planned process for the carrier’s ...
Battleships once ruled the seas, but they have since been replaced by aircraft carriers. The idea of returning to this paradigm has military experts concerned.
As naval warfare reemerges as a key strategy in the US war with Iran, World War II museum ships are finding new relevance.
Iran has two separate navies, the regular Islamic Republic of Iran Navy (IRIN), and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGC Navy).
The USS Arizona sank just nine minutes after being bombed, and its 1,177 dead account for nearly half the servicemen killed ...