The Blue Angels performed their air show on Sunday afternoon, following the cancellation of their Saturday show due to unsafe weather conditions caused by the notorious San Francisco fog.
Reports have estimated that in a conflict with China, U.S. warships would have to quickly leave to friendly piers to reload. Reloading in the open ocean would allow the U.S. surface fleet to stay in a fight and is a top priority for Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro.
Two and a half centuries after the Continental Congress ordered the dispatch of a “swift sailing vessel” with “ten carriage guns,” the modern U.S. Navy counts hundreds of ships and thousands of personnel, and is looking to build out its arsenal of drones.
India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. are members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, an informal group formed as a strategic hedge against Beijing’s rising military power.
A military investigation has concluded that two U.S. Navy SEALs drowned as they tried to climb aboard a ship carrying illicit Iranian-made weapons to Yemen because of glaring training failures and a lack of understanding about what to do after a fall into deep, turbulent waters.
The welding deficiencies were made on noncritical components of three in-service ships. They were done at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, which is the sole maker of carriers for the Navy and one of only two firms that make submarines.
The entire Florida National Guard was joined by Guard forces from at least seven other states as they began route clearance, search and rescue, and other missions before dawn Thursday after the fast-moving storm struck Wednesday night.
The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer arrived in the Philippines with emergency supplies Tuesday as the island nation continues to recover from Super Typhoon Krathon.
A U.S. Navy helicopter resumed its flight four hours after making a “precautionary landing” Thursday on a beach about 30 miles southwest of Tokyo.
The service’s interactive marketing campaign encourages users to decipher codes and search for clues to complete command directives. The campaign is the latest tactic to target submarine-specific jobs, a niche community of sailors that can prove difficult to recruit.