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The US Navy can’t build warships anymore

Summary and Key Points: The U.S. Navy’s “shipbuilding doom loop” is defined by a paradoxical rise in spending alongside a ...
In a confirmed trial of shipboard laser weaponry, the United States Navy has successfully used a high-energy directed energy ...
Naval analysts have long warned that the one-size-fits-all model of carrier strike group deployment is reaching its limits, ...
The U.S. military says it has boarded a sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean. The Pentagon said Monday that American ...
The US Navy poured roughly $8 billion of cutting-edge technology into a single warship and sent it to sea looking like something from a science fiction film. The Zumwalt-class destroyer was meant to ...
On Dec. 29, 2025, Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense reported one of the most intense single-day episodes of Chinese military activity in recent years.
The sailors will receive the medal for their support and execution of ballistic missile defense in 2024 and during last ...
In 2024 and 2025, USS Arleigh Burke shot down Iranian missiles launched against Israel. The ship’s crew has received the ...
USS Truxtun (DDG-103) was back underway Friday after an emergent equipment repair forced the destroyer back to Norfolk, Va., ...
Pembroke native Rear Adm. Jay Clark assumes command of Navy Carrier Strike Group 1, succeeding Rear Adm. Amy Bauernschmidt.
According to information released Thursday by the city, the USS Farragut will arrive in Mobile the morning of Friday, Feb. 13, just as the city enters the period known to some as “Deep Gras.” The ship ...
Raytheon has announced it will ramp up production of several key missile systems, weeks after Trump threatened to nix the ...