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USS Zumwalt to receive hypersonic missile upgrades at HII
The destroyer's modernization period includes installation of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile system.
By Diana Stancy
Keel laid for research ship named after civil rights leader
The $106 million vessel is 200 feet long and will accommodate a crew of 29 to sea for 21 days.
The Mississippi’s metal monsters
How the the Union's fleet of ironclads and tinclads clobbered the Confederacy.
By Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University
Critters hoggin’ your runway? This state has a solution!
Wild pigs aren't a Navy aviator's best friends.
Countdown: The top stories you need to watch for in 2020!
What we think will be some of the trends and events making headlines next year.
By Navy Times staff
The GI Bill should’ve been race neutral, politicos made sure it wasn’t
While white veterans got into college with relative ease, black service members faced limited options and outright denial in their pursuit for educational advancement.
By Joseph Thompson, Mississippi State University
The Navy named its next warship after this city
Designed to replace aging Whidbey Island-class vessels, the Navy wants to buy 13 of these new San Antonio-class variants.
By Navy Times staff
Fearless Farragut!
The Union admiral followed a key tenet: Judge the risk by the prize, and risk all if necessary.
By Lawrence Lee Hewitt, HistoryNet
Next federal research ship slated to sail Gulf of Mexico in 2023
It will be the third of three research ships being built for the National Science Foundation to add state-of-the-art vessels to the shrinking research fleets in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the Gulf. T
Young sailor dies in Mississippi car crash
He died at the scene of the accident, authorities said.
NAVSEA: Up to $1.9 billion deal for Coast Guard’s new icebreaker fleet
The Polar Security Cutters are designed to conduct search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, environmental response and national defense patrol missions in often frozen waters.
By Navy Times staff