Lithuania's Western Baltic Shipyard has laid down the first two maritime security offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) on order for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 new policy aims to revitalize a U.S. shipbuilding industry that has fallen well behind production levels of its rivals ...

Germany shipbuilder Fassmer laid keels of the first two of four Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the Republic of Singapore Navy.

Ships from the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group and the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group sail in formation, December 2023. (MC2 Nolan Pennington/U.S. Navy) President Donald Trump on April 9 signed ...

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