USS Mississippi survived two turret explosions, two kamikaze strikes and fired the last salvo in battleship-to-battleship combat before ushering in the age of guided missiles.

USS Wasp was born from treaty limits and built smaller than her sisters, yet she carried a reputation far larger than her size. After helping save Malta by launching Spitfires, she was rushed into the ...

When a dramatic photo of a CV-22 Osprey hovering above a surfaced submarine spread online, military watchers immediately began trying to identify the vessel and the mission. Official clues later ...

In March 1915, the Great War was spreading like a plague across Europe, Asia and Africa, but the United States of America was still uninvolved and desperately striving to keep out of it. While the ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, ...

Manitowoc sits right on the western shore of Lake Michigan, and if you’ve been driving past it on I-43 thinking it’s just ...

Refueling a nuclear submarine isn't quite as simple or quick as putting gas in your car. Here's why it takes years to get a ...

The issue centered on the four Ohio-class guided-missile submarines, each converted from earlier ballistic-missile platforms. The conversions added 154 Tomahawk launch cells per boat, creating a total ...

After opening with a surprise, daylight blow on Iran’s capital on Feb. 28, the U.S. and Israel unleashed an expansive air campaign to bring the 47-year-old Islamic Republic to its knees almost ...

The Torsk’s sinking of the Japanese vessel marked the last U.S. submarine kill for over eight decades — that is until March 3, 2026.

All three ships have deep local roots. USS Alexandria is assigned to Submarine Squadron 11 at Naval Base Point Loma and drew a visit from California state lawmakers in January, underscoring how ...

Those two ceremonies will be preceded on Aug. 4 by the decommissioning of the USS Alexandria, a 35-year-old Los Angeles-class hunter-killer submarine that is based at Naval Base Point Loma. It ...