In the early hours of December 13, 1939, the South Atlantic bore witness to one of World War II’s most dramatic naval ...

30 Commando as it was first known, was the brainchild of Royal Navy Commander Ian Fleming and founded in the autumn of 1942. Many of the Unit’s adventures featured in Fleming’s James Bond novels, ...

At the same time, their Japanese opponents had yet to fully address the threat that these underwater marauders posed to the ships that brought oil and other foreign resources from their far-flung ...

Germany’s only attempt at building an aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin, was ambitious—but doomed. Conceived as part of Plan Z to challenge British naval dominance, the carrier featured ...

Twenty-two University of San Diego (USD) graduates took their oaths as commissioned officers in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during a ceremony aboard the USS Midway on Thursday, May 29. The ...

By the time D-Day took place, the German Luftwaffe had been so weakened that it could not mount much of an air attack. Allied air superiority was so great that Gen. Eisenhower confidently told his ...

After the German Navy has successfully tested the autonomous underwater vehicle BlueWhale last year and now wants to start procurement, the inlet of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) is also to be ...

thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, one of the world’s leading enterprises in the naval industry, is celebrating the start of a new phase in the company’s development with the launch of a new brand. From now ...

The USS Guadalcanal moves in to take on the towing line from the captured U-505 German submarine in June 1944. (U.S. Navy) 1944: Germany’s U-505 submarine was taken by American Task Group 22.3, ...

The German Navy will receive its first 212CD in 2028 while Norway is expected to be in the water the following year. Oliver Burkhard, the CEO of tkMS, ...

Princess Leonor has just concluded her voyage aboard the Juan Sebastián de Elcano, a training ship used by the Spanish navy.Five months after her departure from the port of Cadiz, the heir to the ...