The family of a World War II U.S. Navy sailor killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor will finally be able to lay him to rest after officials identified his remains. He was previously buried in a mass grave in Hawaii.
The Algemeiner reports: JNS.org – The USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier will dock in Israel’s Haifa Bay next month for the first time in 17 years ahead of participating in military air campaigns against the Islamic State.
Japanese Coast Guard investigators are trying to figure out why it took nearly an hour for a distress call to be made after a U.S. destroyer suffered a collision with a Philippine-flagged merchant ship last week, leaving seven American sailors dead.
The U.S. Navy destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine merchant vessel at approximately 2:30 a.m. local time on Friday, while operating about 56 nautical miles southwest of Yokosuka, Japan.
A U.S. Navy littoral combat ship (LCS) was commissioned Saturday in honor of gun control proponent Gabby Giffords.
Melania Trump ended her first trip abroad as First Lady with a bang speaking to troops at a Naval base in Italy before heading back to the United States on Saturday.
Vice President Mike Pence delivered words of encouragement to the class of 2017 at the United States Naval Academy on Friday. He told them to look toward their future, to write a heroic story of service, selflessness, and leadership with their lives, and that President Donald Trump is the best friend the armed forces of the United States will ever have.
U.S. President Donald Trump has sent a message of thanks to Australia as World War II navy veterans from Down Under head to America and commemorations begin to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of the Coral Sea.
The latest in a string of provocative Iranian maritime actions occurred on Monday when the destroyer USS Mahan was obliged to alter course, fire warning flares, and man its own weapons due to the close approach of an Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps attack boat.
Posting nude pictures of servicemen and women without consent is now a crime in the U.S. Marine Corps and Navy following a nude photo sharing scandal.
Laser weapons for planes, ships, and other vehicles are being readied to deploy after decades of development.
Fox News reports that a Russian warship “has entered the eastern Mediterranean, heading toward two U.S. Navy destroyers that launched airstrikes last night.”
On Tuesday, the aircraft carrier USS George W. Bush entered the Strait of Hormuz from the Indian Ocean, a vital waterway that handles about 30 percent of the world’s oil shipping. As it has done so often over the past few years, Iran sent a swarm of speedboats to harass the carrier.
The U.S. Navy is testing its new electromagnetic rail gun that military officials and researchers have described the as “Star Wars” technology.
ISRAELI NAVY HEADQUARTERS, Haifa – The trilateral Noble Dina exercise between the American, Israeli and Hellenic navies will begin later this month, with nearly a dozen surface ships, submarines and related air assets scheduled to engage in joint reconnaissance, counterterror and antisubmarine warfare training.
A senior official in Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards on Wednesday accused the United States of provoking tensions after two separate incidents in the Gulf last week.
Continuing a pattern of provocative actions, Iran this weekend test-fired a pair of ballistic missiles and sent fast-attack vessels close to a U.S. Navy ship in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. officials confirmed to Fox News.
According to CNN, the famed Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is looking into the online publication of hundreds of “explicit photos of current and former female Marines and other service members.”
On Saturday, several fast-attack boats of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) approached a U.S. Navy ship in the Strait of Hormuz at high speed in the latest “unsafe and unprofessional” action by Iranian forces.
The various U.S. military branches are reportedly drafting proposals to expand in response to President Donald Trump’s pledge to rebuild America’s “depleted” fighting force.
Defense consultant Eric Wertheim, author of The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World, joined Breitbart News Daily on Tuesday to talk about the discovery of a Russian spy ship near the U.S. Navy base in Virginia.
The U.S. military has spotted a Russian spy ship lurking 30 miles from an American submarine base in Connecticut, marking the first such incident under President Donald Trump’s watch.
A full-length animated film depicting an armed confrontation between Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the U.S. Navy is soon to open in Iranian cinemas, amid rising tensions over President Donald Trump’s hardening rhetoric against Tehran.
On Friday, the U.S. Pacific Command announced that one of its patrol aircraft had a “close encounter” with a Chinese plane over the South China Sea. The Pentagon initially classified the encounter as “unsafe” but later walked this judgment back.
WASHINGTON — Only three of the 58 U.S. Army Brigade Combat Teams (BCTs) are capable of immediately joining the fight in the event of a major conflict, Gen. Daniel Allyn, vice chief of staff of the Army, told lawmakers.
TEL AVIV — The Israeli Navy is expanding cooperation with the US Navy and other NATO maritime services and eventually aims to restore professional ties with Turkey after more than six years of estrangement, an Israeli officer said Thursday.
Four Iranian boats made a high-speed approach at the destroyer USS Mahan on Sunday, obliging the Navy vessel to fire warning shots after they ignored radio requests to break off.
“After friendly consultations between China and the United States, the transfer of the US underwater drone was smoothly completed in relevant waters in the South China Sea at midday on 20 December,” the Chinese Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday, referring to the device it seized about 50 miles from Subic Bay in the Philippines last week.
On Saturday, as the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group passed through the Strait of Hormuz, an Iranian patrol boat trained a crew-served weapon on a U.S. Navy helicopter.
Donald Trump rallied more than 8,000 supporters on Friday at two campaign rallies in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, where he currently trails his opponent Hillary Clinton by an average of 6.2 points.
Iran, considered the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, has increased its shipments of military supplies to Shiite Houthi rebels fighting a Saudi-led and U.S.-assisted coalition in Yemen, Reuters has learned from Western and Iranian officials on condition of anonymity.
Missiles believed to originate from Iran-allied Shiite Houthi rebels targeted the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Mason again in international waters off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen over the weekend.
The situation off the coast of Yemen heated up dramatically on Thursday, as the U.S. Navy destroyed three Yemeni radar installations with cruise missiles, and Iran established its own naval presence in the area.
The guided-missile destroyer USS Mason was attacked by Iran-backed insurgents in Yemen for a second time on Wednesday, according to U.S. military officials quoted by Time magazine.
A U.S. Navy destroyer was targeted on Wednesday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, the second such incident in four days, the U.S. military said.
One of the U.S. Navy ships stationed off the coast of Yemen, the USS Mason, has come under attack by Houthi insurgents, who have been supported and armed by Iran.
On Saturday, a rocket attack purportedly launched by Houthi rebels in Yemen struck a ship operated by the United Arab Emirates military, nearly sinking it. The U.S. Navy has now dispatched three warships to the southern coast of Yemen, raising the possibility that America could be drawn more deeply into the Yemeni civil war — and, by extension, the proxy war between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
Iran’s FARS news service quotes General Ali Razmjou of Iran’s Second Naval Zone claiming that his forces “seized thousands of pages of valuable intelligence from the US marines during their detention.”
U.S. defense officials have revealed that Iran threatened to shoot down two U.S. Navy aircraft flying over international waters last weekend.
The Wall Street Journal quotes Brig. Gen. Masoud Jazayeri, a spokesman for the armed forces of Iran, responding to American concerns about the harassment of naval vessels by saying the U.S. claims were exaggerated.