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 ...
The official budget volumes do not publish a complete list of hull numbers and ship names for the retirements. A Congressional Research Service report (R48860) on FY2026 weapon-system funding ...
The USS Zumwalt has been rebuilt at extraordinary cost into the Navy's first hypersonic strike ship, and the number at the ...
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It might seem strange that the U.S. military would decide to sink some of its previously proud and costly vessels. However, in the context of combat training, weapon demonstration and the expenses ...
The U.S. Navy has awarded Florida-based Tote Services the first contract under a new process intended to speed up ...
U.S. Navy ships, at least from a distance, appear to be multi-purpose and capable of carrying every type of fighter jet. But the truth is that certain vessels are designed to carry specific planes, ...
“An experiment that didn’t work,” said another. And an expensive one. The price of the program is pegged at $60 billion, but a 2023 report from the investigative journalism site ProPublica said the ...