The first of the U.S. Navy’s new aluminum Joint High Speed Vessels, the future USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), completed builder’s sea trials on April 19 in the Gulf of Mexico.
Naval …
Since it was reincarnated from its 2008 Northrop Grumman National Security Frigate avatar by Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) and rolled out at the Surface Navy Association’s annual meeting in January, …
The most sophisticated integrated electric power and propulsion system ever built for a U.S. warship is one step closer to hitting the “on” switch.
The Navy’s new USS Zumwalt (DDG …
The Indian Navy (IN) once again rejoined the elite group of navies that operate nuclear-powered submarines with the recent induction of a Russian-built Akula II-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), the …
Anti-terrorism and force protection measures are no game. But gaming technology is helping NATO navies and coast guards better prepared for potential threats.
The NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC) hosted …
A Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey (bureau number 165844) crashed in Morocco on April 11, killing two U.S. Marines and injuring two more severely.
The tilt-rotor aircraft was deployed as part …
A two-seat Navy F/A-18D Hornet aircraft crashed into a populated neighborhood shortly after takeoff from Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., on April 6, 2012. Both aircrew were …
“[T]he most bold and daring act of the Age.”
—Adm. Lord Horatio Nelson
The Barbary Coast of North Africa, from Morocco to Egypt, was home to pirates who had …
Navy ships have begun the semiannual Koa Kai naval exercise, which includes integrated flight operations, anti-surface and anti-submarine training, and dynamic ship maneuvers in and around Hawaiian waters.
Koa Kai …
Two Gulf Coast shipbuilders, VT Halter Marine (Pascagoula, Miss.) and Swiftships (Morgan City, La.), are playing important roles in modernizing Egypt’s naval and coast guard forces respectively.
VT Halter Marine …
