Frigate Touted By Trump Is Among Navy’s ‘Least Performing’ Programs
By Tony Capaccio May 13, 2025 (Bloomberg) –A $22 billion frigate project that President Donald Trump once touted as “the most beautiful, they look
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By Tony Capaccio May 13, 2025 (Bloomberg) –A $22 billion frigate project that President Donald Trump once touted as “the most beautiful, they look
A federal judge in Hawaii ordered the U.S. government on Wednesday to pay about $600,000 to six families impacted by a 2021 Red Hill fuel spill that tainted
Editorial Note: This article was originally published at Bloomberg before this weekend’s fragile ceasefire was announced. by Admiral James
Chris Vagasky (The Conversation)–The National Hurricane Center’s forecasts in 2024 were its most accurate on record, from its one-day forecasts, as
The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) has released a critical evaluation of the military’s Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore
A second F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier has been lost in the Red Sea, following an arrestment failure during
The U.S. Navy’s expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB-5) has completed a groundbreaking five-month Regular Overhaul (ROH) at Mitsubishi Heavy
The Philippines has deployed a coast guard vessel and an aircraft to challenge and escort a Chinese research ship it said was conducting illegal marine
KYIV, May 3 (Reuters) – Ukraine destroyed a Russian Su-30 fighter jet using a missile fired from a seaborne drone, Ukraine’s GUR military
LIMA, May 2 (Reuters) – A Peruvian navy vessel collided with an oil platform operated by Perenco on the Amazon River leaving two people dead and
The U.S. Navy has achieved a significant milestone in its hypersonic weapons program with a successful end-to-end flight test of a conventional hypersonic
The construction of the first heavy icebreaker built in the United States in nearly five decades continues to inch along. The Department of Homeland Security
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan visited major South Korean shipyards this week amid strengthening maritime cooperation between the United States and the
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Iran on Wednesday that it will face consequences for supporting the Houthis, even as the United States has
White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is set to leave the administration following controversy over sharing sensitive military information,
Recent joint operations between the U.S. Coast Guard and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) at the Port of New York and New Jersey have revealed significant
Denmark plans to set aside almost $1 billion to insure its merchant fleet in the event of a war or major crisis. The government proposed the new legislation
The brilliant blue waters, thick foliage and bucolic atmosphere on this seemingly idyllic archipelago deep in the Pacific Ocean belie the key role it now plays
North Korea earlier this week conducted the first test-firing of the weapons system of the new "Choe Hyon-class" warship it recently unveiled, state media KCNA
The U.S. Coast Guard’s newest Legend-class national security cutter, USCGC Calhoun (WMSL 759), has seized approximately 10,000 pounds of cocaine valued
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