The Navy still needs new frigates, and is still intent on building them. But it must make basic changes to its acquisition ...

The admiral who leads the U.S. Navy submarine forces was tapped to head a new position that will oversee American submarine ...

The US Navy’s beleaguered shipbuilding program took a major hit on Tuesday as Navy Secretary John Phelan announced he was cancelling plans to buy Constellation-class frigates, once heralded as a key ...

A LUCAS drone was successfully launched from the flight deck of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship currently operating in the Arabian Gulf.

U.S. Central Command assigned the LUCAS drone to Task Force Scorpion Strike, a unit created to develop and deploy one-way ...

Lawmakers in Washington are supporting a Trump Administration plan to provide only minimal funding to the US Navy's F/A-XX ...

The US Navy is trying to recover two aircraft from the bottom of the South China Sea that US experts say could yield sensitive information to China if Beijing were to get to them first. The aircraft – ...

The USN terminated work on four Constellation-class frigates, shown here in a rendering. (US Navy) The US Navy (USN) is making a “strategic shift away from the Constellation-class frigate programme”, ...

A US Navy warship fired missiles at two American F/A-18 fighter jets above the Red Sea last year. The warship mistook the fighter jets for Houthi cruise missiles, the investigation shows. One of the ...

U.S. and Japanese personnel took part in a drill to practice responding to a hypothetical radiation exposure involving a ...

ROME — The US Navy is cancelling its Constellation frigate program following months of cost overruns and delays but plans to keep two vessels that are already being built in Wisconsin. “We’re ...

As of January 2025, there were 74 active Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in the US Navy, each powered by four LM2500 engines.