Ship Selection Night: Naval Academy midshipmen get ‘swackets,’ far-off destinations
About 240 midshipmen hoisted placards designating their future deployments into the air Thursday as a crowd of supporters ...
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Who Names US Navy Ships?
Three classes of ships were established ... use of the prefixes USS for "United States Ship" and USNS for "United States Naval Ship." The former is used to indicate a commissioned ship, while ...
The United States Navy Is Fielding Dozens of These Destroyers
The United States Navy maintains an edge when it comes to sheer numerical superiority over most nations. When you have ...
Navy names three new ships, one after Silver Star recipient
The Navy's new amphibious transport dock ship will honor a fallen Marine, while two surveillance ships pay tribute to deep ...
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Our Future Naval Strategy Depends on These State-of-the-Art Ships
At the end of 2024 came the christening of the USS Arkansas, a Virginia-class nuclear submarine, at Newport News Shipbuilding ...
The Navy is upgrading littoral combat ships to fight drones
The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take ...
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US Navy Lasers
In 2014, the US Navy installed its first prototype SSL (solid state laser) capable of countering surface craft and unmanned ...