WAVY’s Navy Ship Salute is a feature on WAVY News 10 Today. Each month, in partnership with the U.S. Navy, WAVY-TV 10 will ...

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

MANILA, Philippines — A World War II-era Philippine Navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and ...

A former US World War II-era warship, which survived two of the Pacific War’s most important battles, was supposed to be used ...

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WAVY) – After 18 months in the shipyard, the U.S.S. Arlington returned to the docks. Our team at WAVY, alongside the ship’s mascot Arly the Eagle, welcomed the ship back.

Have you ever seen a Navy ship bearing letters and numbers like DDG-51 or DD-214 and wondered what those codes mean? These ship labels might look random, but they follow a system that's been ...

NORFOLK, Va. — The U.S. Navy's newest ship is set to arrive at Naval Station Norfolk for the first time on Monday. The USNS Robert E. Simanek (T-ESB 7) is the first expeditionary sea base ...

The Philippine Navy’s (PN) most potent anti-ship weapon, the South Korean-made LIG NEX 1 C-Star "sea-skimming" ...

The Indian Navy successfully conducted anti-ship missile firings, demonstrating its readiness to safeguard maritime interests amidst heightened tensions following the ...

A hard turn by an aircraft carrier isn’t enough on its own to cause a $67 million Navy fighter jet to slide off a ship, a Defense Department official said as investigators determine how a plane ...

China has “the world’s leading hypersonic missile arsenal” that can threaten U.S. Navy ships, according to the Defense Department’s most recent report on Chinese military power.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Two Japanese naval ships docked Saturday at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base, whose recently completed Chinese-funded upgrade has heightened U.S. concerns that it will be ...