The United States is the preeminent naval power on Earth due to its constant innovation, fleet size, and global reach. The U.S. Navy is constantly churning out new ships and submarines to add to ...

The following is the June 30, 2025, Congressional Research Service Report on Navy Ship Names. From the report Overview of ...

The Ghost Fleet program was initially a classified DARPA-Navy collaboration but went public with two experimental ships, the ...

When a ship is decommissioned, its name will be struck from the Naval Vessel Register, allowing the Navy to reuse it on a future vessel. Its hull designation , on the other hand, will never be reused.

Japan has been developing electromagnetic railguns and conducted the world's first shipboard firing test in 2023. In the United States, the Navy spent more than a decade developing the same ...

One of the two ships is named the USNS Don Walsh, who was represented by his daughter Liz Walsh. Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named two new ships during a ceremony at the United States ...

For now, the United States Navy is "still widely considered to be the world's most powerful," said Business Insider, and "then-U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said in 2020 that even if the U ...

The SS United States, a record-breaking 1950s ocean liner, may soon sail from Philadelphia to the Gulf. NPR explored this ship, a relic of the grand liners that once connected North America with ...

Trump wants to build more ships in the United States. ... U.S. shipyards today have little presence in the commercial market, concentrating instead on producing vessels for the Navy.

A United States electromagnetic railgun is seen at the Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division in Virginia on January 12, 2017. John F. Williams/U.S. Navy ...