Aircraft carriers became operational in the early 1920s and revolutionized naval strategy. They store, launch, recover, and service aircraft at sea, enabling nations to project airpower far from home ...

San Diego – Falling in love can happen in a snap. Dave Hatzenbuehler knows this from the way he responded nearly a half-century ago upon noticing a big, brooding presence in San Diego Bay. He’d caught ...

Monday marks the 250th birthday of the U.S. Navy and, to commemorate the occasion, some Republican lawmakers and others took to social media to share photos of ships. Unfortunately, they chose ones ...

The high seas were dangerous places during World War II, an unforgiving expanse where nations vied for supremacy, just as they fought each other on land and in the skies. Military ships of all types ...

This story has been corrected. The USS Normandy and USS Philippine Sea, both Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers, saw their respective 36 years of service honored at decommissioning ceremonies ...

The Tomahawk cruise missile has been in the U.S. military’s inventory since the 1980s. While slow by missile standards, the ...

The United States Navy is celebrating 250 years of service, sacrifice, and tradition, commemorating its founding on October ...

With 2025 coming to a close in a couple months and the fiscal year just starting–despite a government shutdown– the United ...

When the United States Navy ships' hull designations first appeared in 1895, ships were referred to by class followed by their series numbers, such as "Battleship 7" or "Destroyer 17," with ...

SAN DIEGO — Falling in love can happen in a snap. Dave Hatzenbuehler knows this from the way he responded nearly a half-century ago upon noticing a big, brooding presence in San Diego Bay. He’d caught ...