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Opinion
Get the US Navy’s frigate program back on schedule
Failure to return the FFG-62 to the expected cost and schedule will further erode confidence in Navy acquisition management.
By Everett Pyatt
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Navy postpones several modernization programs to pay for operations
The Navy's fiscal 2025 budget request prioritizes near-term readiness and lethality and delays a number of larger, longer-term modernization programs.
Decommissioned guided-missile frigate Curts sunk during Valiant Shield exercise
A series of air, surface and subsurface missiles were utilized during the drill.
By Diana Stancy
Build a fleet, not a constituency
The U.S. Navy’s frigate award is a great start toward the future fleet, but the service must assess the best mix of ships for future warfare.
By Bryan Clark and Timothy A. Walton
Legislators press Trump to push frigate deal to Marinette
Each ship is expected to cost about $900 million.
‘In the Navy’ songwriter dead at 82
Henri Belolo co-founded Village People and helped pen their disco hits.
UK joins US in Strait of Hormuz naval security mission
Britain said Monday that it would join a U.S.-led naval security mission in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran’s seizure of merchant vessels has raised tensions with the West. Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister lambasted recent U.S. financial sanctions against him, calling the move a “failure” for diplomacy.
Search ends for missing sailor
The sailor served in Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5, the Norfolk-based World Famous Nightdippers.
By Navy Times staff
Search underway for sailor missing in the Arabian Sea
Warships from three nations are searching the Arabian Sea
By Mark D. Faram
London sending warship to the Persian Gulf
The British navy said Thursday it had stopped three Iranian paramilitary vessels from disrupting the passage of a British oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz.
Meet America’s daring frigate captains
In the War of 1812, Britain’s powerful Royal Navy met its match in a determined band of U.S. Navy warship commanders.
By Cmdr. Benjamin "B.J." Armstrong
John Paul Jones: Sea power visionary
John Paul Jones pioneered the idea of global sea power a century before the rise of the modern U.S. Navy.
By Joseph F. Callo, Military History Magazine