US Navy News

You might have missed it, but virtually overnight the Navy just grew, from 283 battle force ships to 291.

The turmoil over how to end an epidemic of sexual assaults in the U.S. military is far from over as Congress haggles over legislative remedies and new details emerge about a high-profile case involving Brig.

Top U.S. defense officials are bracing for a brutal season of budget negotiations, warning U.S. lawmakers that the U.S. military will gradually become unable to respond to emerging crises if Congress blocks the Pentagon's plans to cut military compensation, close bases and retire entire fleets of aircraft.

PETALING JAYA: The Royal Malaysian Navy is not using submarines in search-and-rescue operations for the missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 flight as its sonar is not designed to conduct sea-bed searches.

The U.S. Navy's newest aircraft carrier - a massive warship outfitted with the latest radar technology and sophisticated systems to accomodate unmanned carrier-launched drones - is set to undergo more than two years of rigorous testing.

An inmate has pleaded guilty to murder in the stabbing death of a guard at a federal prison in Central California.

Somewhere below, it is believed, are the remains of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which disappeared on a journey from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

A pro-Russian force opened fire in seizing a Ukrainian military base in Crimea on Monday and NATO announced reconnaissance flights along its eastern frontiers as confrontation around the Black Sea peninsula showed no sign of easing.

This Jan. 29, 2014 file photo shows Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Capitol Hill in Washington.

The US Navy has provided funding for Austal to build another two Littoral Combat Ships, the seventh and eighth vessels in a 10-ship program worth $US3.5 billion.

The Navy admiral nominated to be the next head of the troubled National Security Agency is expressing concerns about the U.S. government turning over the bulk collection of telephone data to an independent third party, saying it could result in higher costs and delays identifying potential threats.

A bipartisan group of 105 lawmakers urged the Defense Department on Monday to make it easier for practicing Sikh Americans who wear beards and turbans to serve in the military.

When Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008, one of his selling points was the promise of a more modest foreign policy than that of his predecessor.

And the local college is on a mission to educate its student and faculty about how to teach and study with those who suffer the effects of traumatic brain injury.

Washington is conducting Composite Training Unit Exercise in the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for their upcoming deployment.

One Indian worker was killed in an accident during construction of a nuclear submarine, a defence statement said Sunday, the latest in a string of deadly mishaps to hit the navy.

The mysteries surrounding the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, and the true identities of some of its passengers, are as deep as the southeast Asian waters where multinational search teams are searching for the jet.

One of The US Navy 's most lethal Destroyers steamed through the Bosporus Straits and into the Black Sea, where the Ukraine-Russia crisis continues to unfold, on Friday, 03/07/2014.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney joined the search Sunday for a missing Malaysia passenger flight.

The UK's entire nuclear-powered submarine fleet will be told to leave the Clyde and go back to England if Scotland votes for independence in September, the Scottish Government has said.