The lead ship of the US Navy's (USN's) new destroyer class has begun initial sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean, navy officials confirmed on 8 December. Built by General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Zumwalt (DDG 1000) departed the shipyard in Bath, Maine, for the first time on 7 December....
US Navy sailors on the deck of USS Freedom (LCS 1), April 12, 2021. Credit: DVIDS. The US Navy continues to support itsFreedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) afterconsiderable technical problemsand the decommissioning of a large number of vessels planned this year. The US Department of ...
In April 2006, theUS Navyannounced that the first ship of the class would be designated DDG 1000 Zumwalt. The second ship was named Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) in October 2008. The US Navy budget for the 2007 and 2008 financial year provided funding for the first two ships to be built b...
The Navy's amphibious ships, sometimes called miniature carriers, are used to deploy Marines and sailors forward around the world for training, combat and humanitarian missions. The classes of amphibious ships include the following: Wasp-Class Amphibious Assault Ship (LHD-1) These ships have been ...
The transport dock ship Green Bay, the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S. Diehl and the amphibious dock landing ship Ashland conduct a replenishment-at-sea with MH-60S Seahawk helicopters on Jan. 30, 2019, in the Philippine Sea. (MC1 Daniel Barker/U.S. Nav...
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USSHarryS.Truman(CVN-75)istheeighthNimitz-classaircraftcarrieroftheUnitedStatesNavy,namedafterthe33rdPresidentoftheUnitedStates,HarryS.Truman.Theship'scallsignisLoneWarrior,andsheiscurrentlyhomeportedatNavalStationNorfolk,Virginia.TheU.S.Navyhasbegunlookingatthepossibilityofusinglow-enricheduraniuminthenuclear...
A team of Fire Controlmen aboard the Gerald R. Ford feed dummy ammunition into the ship's MK-15 close-in weapon system during a maintenance check. 21 of 74Ryan Litzenberger/US Navy Prepping the missile launcher Fire Controlman 3rd Class Lawrence Batcheller performs an operability test on th...
US and Royal Navy personnel responded to a distress call, on June 4th, from a cargo vessel traversing the Strait of Hormuz as Iranian fast-attack vessels harassed the ship. Maritime Health Watch: Secretary of the U.S. Navy names first-in-class expeditionary medical ship ...