The warships have used SM-3s to down Iranian missiles in Turkish airspace three times since February 28, a defense official said.
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, missile cruisers USS Gettysburg and USS Lake Erie, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are in the region.
Four Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships stationed in Bahrain were decommissioned in 2025 after each serving for over 30 ...
A viral photo of USS Dewey showed a major naval challenge: rust. Saltwater corrosion relentlessly eats at steel ships, ...
The fire occurred Thursday in the aircraft carrier's main laundry room and was not combat related, the Navy said.
In addition to watching out for missile and drone attacks, mariners in conflict zones need to be on guard for GPS spoofing ...
More than a dozen oil tankers, cargo and other commercial ships have been attacked in the Persian Gulf since the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran began nearly two weeks ago.
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 ...
Hopes for quickly reviving trade through the strait are dimming without US naval escorts as Iran steps up attacks.
The U.S. said this week that it attacked 16 Iranian mine-laying vessels near the Strait of Hormuz. In the 1980s, Iranian ...
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 ...
There is much current discussion about having foreign shipyards build U.S. Navy warships as a way to increase production and fleet numbers. That sounds good on paper, but if the target is combatant ...