High seas caused issues with the pier off of Gaza built at President Joe Biden’s command on Saturday, two days after a service member was critically injured on the pier. Biden ordered the pier to be built to send more aid into Gaza, where hunger has emerged as an issue for the civilian population while […]
A new American aircraft carrier group will be heading to the Red Sea, where American forces have been under attack by Houthi rebels since mid-November. The USS Harry S. Truman strike group will replace the strike group led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, which has downed dozens, if not hundreds of Iran-supplied missiles and […]
A seagoing vessel or aircraft approaching a warship of the U.S. — or any nation, for that matter — must identify itself or face what could be lethal consequences. Conventional spycraft take time to reach their target and can be immobilized before breaching a ship’s security. But what about a drone, quickly zipping above and […]
At least 30 sailors and Marines were injured off the Atlantic coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Wednesday when two landing hovercrafts collided. Landing Craft Air Cushions, or LCACs, from both the multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Wasp and the transport dock vessel USS New York crashed into each other, according to a Navy announcement. Sailors assigned […]
In the wake of Congress’ newest $95 billion spending package for foreign aid, the U.S. Navy has chosen to employ new methods of countering China in the Pacific, The Defense Post reported. While the spending package includes $8.1 billion for Taiwan and nations in the Pacific, the Navy plans to convert surplus oil rigs into […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Denmark warned Thursday that a technical error on a navy missile might make it launch unintentionally – but not explode – and send fragments falling into Danish waters. Denmark’s armed forces said the technical problem arose on a Harpoon missile on the frigate HDMS Niels Juel during testing at anchor in the […]
The Navy’s decision to ask Congress for only a single Virginia-class fast-attack submarine in its fiscal year 2025 budget request wasn’t some “inside the Beltway” maneuver to trick Congress into securing enough funds to pay for a second sub, the service’s comptroller said Wednesday. Assistant Navy Secretary Russell Rumbaugh said it was a “real decision” […]
Police early Thursday arrested a man suspected of shooting and wounding a D.C. Housing Authority police officer near the Navy Yard neighborhood in Southeast. Chief Michael Reese, the head of the Housing Authority’s police unit, said the suspect was taken into custody at 9 a.m. after barricading himself inside a parking garage. A woman who […]
When you’ve only got two big boats left, and the two of them are…well…busted, that’s gonna leave a mark. In fact, when they break down on their way out of port, with the harbor closed to other traffic, and everyone lining the quays and roadways in anticipation of watching the awesome, majestic outbound passage, and […]
The US Navy had to deliver some bad news last October. Like the other armed service branches, they missed their recruiting goals again. And they missed all of them. By a lot. The enlisted ranks goal for fiscal year 2023 had been 37,700, but they came up more than 7,000 short of that. They missed […]
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