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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

In this photo released by Japanese Embassy to Cambodia, A Japanese warship docks at a naval base's pier during a four-day visit at the Ream Naval Base in Sihanoukville, southwestern of Phnom Penh ...

The first enlisted Australian sailors that could eventually crew American and Australian nuclear attack submarines graduated ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Two Japanese naval ships docked Saturday at Cambodia ... will be used as a strategic outpost for China’s navy in the Gulf of Thailand. The visit by the two ...

At Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Sens. Susan Collins and Jeanne Shaheen urge Trump's new Navy secretary to keep up with China on ...

The U.S. Navy is preparing to ship low-level radioactive waste generated during maintenance work on the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington at Yokosuka Naval Base to the United States, ...