When the Navy awards one of its toughest, most capable ships the name of a living Medal of Honor recipient, it says something profound about faith in patriotism and in perseverance. The DDG‑148, now ...

Marine veteran Kyle Carpenter, a Medal of Honor recipient, will have a guided missile destroyer named in his honor.

Lance Corporal Kyle Carpenter launched himself in front of a live grenade to save a fellow Marine. Now the Navy is naming a ship after him.

Navy Secretary John C. Phelan posted Monday on X that the branch’s next Arleigh Burke-class destroyer would be named the USS Kyle Carpenter.

The announcement was made by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro during the annual Surface Navy Association symposium, where he ...

Carpenter, now 35, is a medically retired Marine and a University of South Carolina graduate. He received the United States' ...

With a cost estimated at $2.5 billion, the U.S. Navy assigned General Dynamics’ Bath Iron Works unit to add an eighth DDG 51 ...

The Navy has ordered an additional Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer from General Dynamics Bath Iron ...

BATH, Maine (WABI) - Bath Iron Works has been awarded a contract to build a new navy destroyer. BIW will build the DDG-148 ...

Bath Iron Works has won the contract to build another destroyer for the Navy. The new DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, ...