Littoral Combat Ships are fast, have an embarked helicopter and other equipment that make them good at catching drug ...

The Navy wants a Louisiana shipyard to build the first hull for the Landing Ship Medium program as part of a plan to find an ...

The U.S Navy has a vast variety of terms that are more familiar than others, like the main deck and overboard. However, ...

The United States Navy has used the same standards to assign names and hull numbers to its vessels for more than a century.

Mobile, Ala. shipbuilder Austal USA held a keel laying ceremony to mark the official start of construction on the future USNS ...

China is expanding its military reach and presence with the largest navy in the world by hull count—over 370 ships and submarines—seeking to challenge America's naval dominance, as well as ...

There's a "USS" in the name of every commissioned ship in the United States Navy. But other designations are more obscure.