The following is the Dec. 4, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress. From the ...

The Navy still needs new frigates, and is still intent on building them. But it must make basic changes to its acquisition ...

America needs to reinvest in building military hardware. The United States spends about 3.4 percent of its gross domestic product on defense, down from nearly 5 percent in 2010 and 9.4 percent in 1967 ...

The Navy regularly tests unmanned vessels in the Charleston Harbor and recently sent one of these boats across the Atlantic ...

Greek police have arrested five suspected members of an international crime ring trafficking an estimated seven tonnes of cocaine from Venezuela to Europe on a Greek-operated fishing vessel, two ...

China, which claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own, says it alone exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction over the strait, a major trade route for about half of global container ships ...

Key Points and Summary – The Arsenal Ship was a 1990s plan for a joint-force “missile barge” packing up to 1,000 ...

The world’s largest shipbuilder, South Korea’s HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI), is the primary supplier of these new ...

On August 17, 12 civilian vessels are located in their home waters off the Chinese coast. The vessels will soon set off for a landing beach in Guangdong Province. To trace their movements, Reuters ...

(WLUK) -- The U.S. Navy is canceling four ships that were to be built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine. Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the Constellation frigate program in a ...

In the light of the fact that it is this year (2025) seventy years ago (1955) that the Simon’s Town Agreement was signed ...

The Trump administration has built up a fleet of warships near Venezuela as American forces keep blowing up small boats ...