Throughout the Cold War, military planners on both sides of the Iron Curtain built weapons designed to deter the unthinkable. Yet several of those systems came dangerously close to coming active and ...
On March 25, however, the Navy was reminded that one didn’t need a war to be imperiled by the sea, as F-4 sank with Lt.
In the 1930s a concrete ship called the SS Monte Carlo operated as a floating casino just outside California’s legal waters.
The last U.S. Navy cruiser based in Japan will soon depart for the United States, closing out a decadelong deployment with the U.S. 7th Fleet. The guided-missile cruiser USS Robert Smalls, formerly ...
In September 1914, a single German U-boat ventured into the North Sea. Lieutenant Otto Weddigen’s U-9 slipped past patrols and found itself within range of a British cruiser squadron. What followed ...
The USS Robert Smalls will be replaced by the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin.
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, missile cruisers USS Gettysburg and USS Lake Erie, and the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit are in the region.
"Rising from its watery grave after being sunk at Pearl Harbor, it survived torpedoes, bombs, shells, and two atomic blasts." ...