There's a "USS" in the name of every commissioned ship in the United States Navy. But other designations are more obscure.

The U.S. Navy seems unable to figure out what it wants from the next-generation DDG(X) destroyer. Different conceptual ...

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale (DDG 106) departed Naval Base San Diego to support U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) southern border operations in the USNORTHCOM area ...

The boatswain’s mate, who grew up in Egypt, was awarded for his gutsy role in responding to a pirate attack on a commercial ...

Secretary of the Navy John Phelan embarked USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the flagship of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12, to ...

Sustaining high-tempo US Navy (USN) surface-ship combat operations in the Red Sea depends on proper maintenance of the ...

The U.S. Navy deployed a guided-missile destroyer to patrol the southern border region on Friday. It's the second such vessel to be deployed to the area in less than a month ...

In May 1944, the clash between USS Buckley and the German submarine U-66 unfolded as one of the most bizarre and ferocious naval battles of World War II. After sustaining heavy damage from Buckley's ...

USS Michael Monsoor is one of the largest and most technologically advanced surface combatants in the world, the U.S. Navy ...

A guided-missile destroyer was dispatched to patrol the Eastern Pacific on Friday, the Navy announced. USS Stockdale (DDG-106 ...

New satellite images show what could be North Korea’s biggest warship ever – possibly more than double the size of anything ...

The U.S Navy has a vast variety of terms that are more familiar than others, like the main deck and overboard. However, ...