Navy/USMC

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) on Monday announced the first successful missile defense test firing of Standard Missile-3 missiles from Japanese […]

The Israeli government and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. recently conducted an interception test of a naval version of the Iron Dome air defense system. The company and Israeli government […]

The Navy accepted delivery of the next Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC), Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 106 on Thursday. This came after the vessel completed acceptance trials with the Navy’s Board […]

The Navy’s first stealth destroyer recently came back from its first long-range employment that worked through maintenance and logistics, but next year it will start getting hypersonic missiles installed to […]

This week the U.K. government awarded BAE Systems a $5 billion contract to build a second group of five more Type 26 frigates for the Royal Navy. Speaking in Indonesia […]

Two members on the Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) Seapower panel sent a letter to the Secretary of the Navy on Nov. 15 urging him to provide to Congress the […]

The Navy issued a Request For Information (RFI) on Nov. 9 to conduct market research for plans to potentially buy 90 40-foot Patrol Boats, called the 40PB. The 40PB is […]

The Defense Department plans to enlarge its submarine operating capability from Guam in the coming decade to help counter China’s growing naval capabilities, the head of U.S. submarines in the […]

A Navy official last week admitted the cost of hypersonic weapon development is too expensive and the existing industrial base is too small for the military services to not work […]

A top Navy official said last week the service is confident they will field hypersonic weapons on both a Zumwalt-class destroyer and Virginia-class submarine later this decade despite time pressures. […]