US Navy frigate captures 5 pirates near SeychellesJASON STRAZIUSO
The U.S. Navy has selected a Franco-Italian frigate design as the basis for its next generation guided missile frigate, FFG(X). The ship will be European in basic design but with U.S. made weapons and sensors. The Navy will buy an initial 10 ships with up to 40 or more purchased...
Two days after Iran was unsuccessful in seizing a similar vessel in the Arabian Gulf, Jamaran (FFLG 76), an Islamic Republic of Iran Navy frigate, seized two Saildrone Explorer USVs operating near one another in international waters before returning the vessels to the US Navy the next da...
Navy’s newest frigate program. We’ve been strong international partners for many years and now we’ll work together in the U.S. for the first time to deliver world-class American-made products for our military.” The first set of propellers ...
There are four active classes of Navy surface combatants. A fifth class, the Constellation-class Frigate (FFG-62) will be under construction starting in 2021 and is set to enter service in 2026. The active classes are as follows: Ticonderoga-Class Guided-Missile Cruiser (CG-47) ...
An artist rendering of the guided-missile frigate FFG(X). The new small surface combatant will have multi-mission capability to conduct air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare, electronic warfare and information operations. (U.S. Navy graphic) ...
During the past weekend, another US Navy officer was involved in a separate accident. The US Coast Guard medevaced a sailor from a US Navy ship approximately 12 miles off the coast of the entrance of the Chesapeake Bay in the early morning hours of 24 October. ...
A U.S. Navy submarine has pulled into Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a show of force as a fleet of Russian warships gather for planned military exercises in the Caribbean.
Carrier Strike Group 2, now in the Red Sea, includes USS Eisenhower with another four Super Hornet squadrons, the cruiser Philippine Sea, destroyers Graveley and Mason, and the Italian Navy frigate Virginio Fasan. Typically, each carrier strike group is accompanied by a nuclear-powered att...
Charlestown Navy Yard is part of the Boston National Historical Park, and it's a short walk to the Bunker Hill Monument and Museum, also in the park. The 221-foot-tall granite monument marks the hilltop site of the earthen fort built by New England soldiers prior to the Battle of Bunker...