The US Navy (USN) has despatched a second Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Spruance, to patrol its southern border to counter drug and weapons smuggling and illegal immigration. The Spruance was ...

The United States Navy is engaged in twenty-first-century “gunboat diplomacy” after it announced that a second Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer had been sent to support southern ...

United States Navy ships from the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group and the Zumwalt-class destroyer USS Michael Monsoor, far right, sail in formation in the Western Pacific Ocean on April 10 ...

The critical design review puts the vessels on course to be fully upgraded by the end of 2030. The Franco-Italian Horizon-class destroyers have completed their critical design review stage in the ...

The USS Kidd has made its home in Baton Rouge since 1982 as the only World War II Fletcher-class destroyer preserved in its wartime configuration. Last spring, the ship was floated down to the ...

The science of submarines has grown exponentially since the CSS Hunley sank the USS Housatonic on February 17, 1864. The Hunley was the first military submarine to sink an enemy target, but the ...

a Fletcher-class destroyer. Alleta remained an especially poignant symbol of what military families sacrifice during wartime. It was not uncommon for sailors -- some of whom knew her sons -- to ...

For comparison, the US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are about 505 feet long and its under-construction Constellation-class frigates will be 496 feet long. The existence of the warship ...

U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class destroyers armed with an array of Standard Missiles did this job well last year, and they will be ready to take those shots again to defend American forces.

A destroyer belonging to the United States Navy, the USS Maddox (DD-731) and its alleged experiences in that body of water over the course of those fateful days in August 1964 became the trigger ...