The surface force will net a total of seven Littoral Combat Ships after the Navy shelved plans to decommission the hulls ...

A ferry with more than 350 people onboard sank early Monday in choppy seas off the southern Philippines, killing at least 18 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt ...

Robert Copeland was a newly minted 30-year-old lawyer when he was called up for active duty at the outset of World War II. In October of 1944, at Leyte Gulf, he would steer his outgunned destroyer ...

During the Battle of Leyte Gulf, a small group of American escort carriers and destroyers unexpectedly faced the most powerful surface fleet Japan ever assembled. Vastly outgunned and outnumbered, the ...

Navy destroyers will spend considerably less time projecting American sea power than planned, with chronic delays and labor overruns cutting nearly a decade off their operational lifespans, according ...

On December 10, 1944, an American admiral stated that the Japanese kamikaze attacks were “… beating the hell out of us.” December 10 had been seven weeks since the American troops landed on Leyte and ...

Nov 29 (Reuters) - The Sahand destroyer, which capsized during repairs last year, has been recommissioned into the Iranian Navy along with the Kurdistan floating base, Iran’s state media reported on ...

“I was 17 on the 3rd of September 1942, and I was sworn into the Navy on September the 5th, ’42,” Carlile said. He served in the Navy from September 1942 to May 1947 and served on the USS Farenholt ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — James Carlile recently turned 100 years old. The World War II veteran sat down with Nexstar’s KAMR to speak about his time in the United States Navy and share his stories ...