Over the past few years, concerns about China’s navy and its potential threat to U.S. interests have steadily grown. Two decades ago, the U.S. Navy had 282 battle-force ships against the ... in the ...

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The defense department is now seriously eyeing strategic Grande Island—once a tourist draw but long coveted by dubious interests—as a military post SUBIC BAY FREEPORT—An American-era island-fortress ...

A Royal Netherlands Navy frigate test fired a Tomahawk guided-cruise missile off the coast of Norfolk, Va., on Tuesday ahead ...

PARIS — French defense-electronics maker Thales won a contract to supply the entire sonar and acoustics suite for the Royal ...

The Dutch navy has confirmed the first successful launch of a Tomahawk cruise missile from one of its frigates. The ...

a South Korean shipyard has completed large-scale maintenance work on a US Navy supply ship. Earlier this week, South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean finished up repairs on USNS Wally Schirra ...

The sea service planned to have a battle force of 313 ships by 2025. But in its fiscal 2025 shipbuilding plan, the Navy said it will have 287 ships by 2025 — 26 fewer ships than expected.

But as VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb reports, while the Chinese navy keeps growing, the number of ships in the U.S. fleet is decreasing. VOA footage by Mary Cieslak, Adam Greenbaum ...