Valiant Shield Exercise Valiant Shield 2026 (VS26) began on Monday, taking place taking place in the Commonwealth of the ...

The French Navy boarded and diverted a suspected Russian shadow fleet tanker in the Mediterranean off Sicily, officials ...

Two U.S. warships and Air Force cargo aircraft are headed to Venezuela to support a U.S. State Department relief mission ...

The U.S.-led Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2026 exercise began on Thursday in Hawaii. Thirty-one surface ships, five submarines ...

 The following is a summary of major ship movements and exercises in the Western Pacific over the last week. Valiant Shield ...

The following is the June 25, 2026, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, Artemis: NASA’s Program to Return Humans ...

North Korea commissioned its largest warship to date, the 5,000-ton destroyer Choe Hyon (51), in a ceremony Tuesday in the ...

Iran threatens to mine the Strait of Hormuz, petroleum markets react, world economies take notice, and more naval forces are… ...

The Littoral Combat Ship USS Indianapolis (LCS-17) suffered an in-port fire on Wednesday while in port at Naval Station ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

Four people have been taken to the hospital after a Coast Guard helicopter crashed on Monday in southeast Alaska, the service ...

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