March 26, 2021 Navy sending team to Suez Canal to help dig out massive ship blocking passage The U.S. Navy will assist the Egyptian government in the operation to dig out a giant container ship currently stuck sideways in the Suez Canal.
March 12, 2021 Jet Girl - Honoring former US Navy Weapons System Operator Caroline Johnson You've probably seen images of a U.S. Navy fighter jet in action, perhaps even catching a glimpse of the awe-inspiring F/A-18 Super Hornet jet, the Navy's 80 million dollar twin engine aircraft which can carry air-to-air missiles and air-to-surface weapons.
March 2, 2021 US Naval Academy coronavirus outbreak sends 98 midshipman to hotel for quarantine The U.S. Naval Academy has moved 98 midshipmen recovering from COVID-19 to the Hilton Garden Inn in Annapolis, Maryland in an effort to provide additional space for quarantining and isolation at the college's Bancroft Hall dormitory.
February 26, 2021 China tracks Navy destroyer in Taiwan Strait, accuses US of undermining regional stability This is the second transit through the Taiwan Strait by the U.S. Navy in February.
February 25, 2021 Navy task force pledge on discrimination, 'intersectional identities': What we know The Task Force One Navy recently made diversity-related recommendations that include de-emphasizing standardized academic tests when evaluating Navy recruits and renaming ships and other assets with "problematic" names.
February 22, 2021 Pensacola Navy shooting victims accuse Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of helping to facilitate attack The 158-page complaint, filed in federal court in Pensacola on Monday, claims the shooter, Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) 2nd Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Shamrani, had fellow Saudi military trainees as "accomplices" to assist him in carrying out the attack.
February 17, 2021 US Navy seizes large cache of smuggled weapons off Somalia The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of weapons being smuggled by two small ships off the coast of Somalia, it announced Tuesday, amid the grinding war in nearby Yemen.
January 18, 2021 Navy fast-tracks 'on-time' delivery of nuclear-armed Columbia-class submarine The entire premise of undersea strategic deterrence is based on the need for nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines to hold potential attackers at risk of catastrophic destruction, without being found, detected, or seen by enemies in any way.
January 17, 2021 New Navy destroyer-fired laser will change maritime war When the Navy is ready to deploy a new 60kw ship-fired laser weapon from a destroyer later this year, maritime attack strategy and tactics will enter new dimensions of massive warfare on the open seas.
January 17, 2021 Navy to deploy destroyers with new laser attack weapon Navy destroyers will soon be armed with high-powered, precision 60kw laser weapons that can track and incinerate attacking drone targets at sea, bringing new “at-the-speed-of-light” attack technology to maritime warfare in new ways.