In the 1980s, the U.S. Navy brought its four iconic Iowa-class battleships—Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri, and Wisconsin—out of ...

USS, HMS, SS - what do all these designations mean on a military ship? Here's what USS stands for on Navy ships, and some history behind the naming of them.

The US Navy has been pivoting from a Cold War alignment toward a more modern, flexible fleet as the focus shifts to the ...

Task Force 66 is on the front lines of the Navy's efforts to learn innovative and asymmetric warfighting tactics like those ...

The preliminary NTSB report released Monday leaves more questions than answers on the crash that killed two crewmembers and ...

The US Coast Guard (USCG) is increasing its Arctic inventory with a new Sentinel class Fast Response Cutter (FRC) to be ...

The following is the June 30, 2025, Congressional Research Service Report on Navy Ship Names. From the report Overview of ...

The Navy is relying on the combination of the annual defense budget and supplemental legislation to buy 19 new ships in 2026, ...

The Pentagon said it's done with "political" ship naming. The move follows a number of name changes at US Army bases.

Navy replenishment oiler, which was previously named for gay rights leader, has been renamed for World War II hero Oscar V.

The USNS Harvey Milk, a John Lewis-class fleet replenishment oiler, is shown in March in drydock at Alabama Shipyard in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has revealed the new name for the USNS Harvey Milk, weeks after he announced he would be ...