In 1987, the US Navy began escorting commercial vessels in Operation Earnest Will. This was dangerous duty: The war was dangerous for escorts as well as merchant ships: in May 1987, the frigate ...

Because mesothelioma symptoms can take 20-50 years to appear, some veterans who served in the U.S. Navy decades ago are only now being diagnosed with this rare cancer. “When I was in the U.S. Navy, ...

The US Navy released impressive video showing troops blasting several guided missiles at Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen from a warship in the Red Sea on New Year’s Eve. The long-range ...

China's navy has a menacing ... that the cost of keeping the ships up and running is draining the service of funds and shipyard space. In 2021, for instance, USS Vella Gulf lasted just one week ...

Pakistan and US navies have conducted a bilateral exercise in the Arabian Sea. According to Pakistan Navy, US Navy Ship USS O'Kane visited Karachi and Participated in a bilateral exercise at Arabian ...

SAN DIEGO - A fire on the USS Bonhomme Richard ... This week the Navy commissioned its newest amphibious assault ship — the USS Tripoli — in an low-key administrative ceremony in Mississippi ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two U.S. Navy pilots were shot ... Houthi drones and an anti-ship cruise missile launched by the rebels. Incoming hostile fire from the Houthis has given ...

Since the Truman's arrival, the U.S. has stepped up its airstrikes targeting the Houthis and their missile fire ... USS Dwight D. Eisenhower saw earlier this year. That deployment marked what the ...

The first Intrepid was captured from the Barbary state of Tripoli in December 1803 where she sailed under the name Mastico. In February 1804, she then slipped into Tripoli harbor to set fire to the ...

the United States Ship Harry Truman. It was also the Navy’s luckiest day: both the pilot and his back-seat weapons officer safely ejected just seconds before the SAM-2 missile completely destroyed the ...