The U.S. Navy's new medium landing ship design, sourced from a foreign shipbuilder, was chosen to control cost overruns and streamline construction timelines.

The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted ...

The American 4,000 ton LST 100 is a hundred meters long and 16 meters wide. It has a top speed of 28 kilometers an hour and a range of 6,300 kilometers before needing refuelling and resupply. This ...

A contract award to build the lead Landing Ship Medium (LSM) is expected in mid-2026, a senior Marine Corps official said ...

The Navy doesn’t have a clear plan for replacing the capabilities of an aging destroyer used to test the effectiveness of ...

The Stockton Maritime Museum took ownership of the USS Lucid in 2010, where it started undergoing intensive renovations to ...

It would be easy to mistake LHD-7 for an "aircraft carrier," but the conventionally-powered warship is actually a Wasp-class ...

President Donald Trump scrambled Navy ship-naming traditions last week with his announcement of a new “Trump-class” battleship, to be called the USS Defiant, featuring nuclear-tipped missiles and ...

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and U.S. Rep. Lisa McClain will christen a new U.S. Navy ship this weekend. The christening of the ...

Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro is in New York to face drug trafficking charges following his capture during an overnight military attack by the United States, and amid his travel to America, he ...

In late December 2025, the U.S. Navy announced plans to pursue a new class of large surface combatants described as Trump-class battleships, marking the first time in decades the service has publicly ...

When a U.S. Navy ship experiences a power loss at sea, sailors have standard procedures they follow to ensure the safety of everyone onboard. While these procedures are in part described by the Navy's ...