The USS John F. Kennedy set sail for its shipbuilder sea trials Wednesday, allowing HII to test the vessel out at sea for the first time.

The surface force will net a total of seven Littoral Combat Ships after the Navy shelved plans to decommission the hulls ...

The future USS John F. Kennedy, the second Ford class aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy, has begun its initial sea trials.

Much of the U.S. Navy runs on nuclear power, including aircraft carriers and submarines, but the USS America is neither. Here's what gets its motor running.

The U.S. Navy’s next Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, the USS John F. Kennedy ...

The Constellation-class frigate will now go the same way as the Zumwalt-class destroyer and the Littoral Combat Ship—expensive programs canceled well before their time, at great cost to the taxpayer.

The Navy still needs new frigates, and is still intent on building them. But it must make basic changes to its acquisition process to avoid a second Constellation fiasco. The Constellation class was ...

Does it even need a Tico replacement with potential for hypersonics? Instead of trying to cram everything into a single hull because the President wants a bigger boat to wave, what is the smallest ...

It's hard to understate just how much the aircraft carrier has changed the face of naval warfare, as well as global geopolitical power itself since the beginning of the Second World War. Throughout ...

The end of the Age of the Battleship appears to have been called prematurely as the Trump administration, as part of its Golden Fleet US Navy reform, says it is reviving the giant battlewagons in the ...

The question sounds superficial but I genuinely am not confident the navy can do this anymore for a large number of reasons, and a second (or is it third) failure of the DDGX program would effectively ...