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February 26, 2025

'No time to waste': Navy's ousted top officer speaks to staff after DOD leadership shakeup

Adm. Lisa Franchetti was the first woman to serve as the chief of naval operations and on the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

February 13, 2025

Fishing boat captain who rescued Navy pilots after jet crash describes surreal moment: 'What we see in movies'

A charter fishing boat captain described rescuing two fighter jet pilots from the water after a Navy jet crashed into the San Diego Bay.

February 12, 2025

If Iran goes nuclear, B-2 bomber will get the call

Inspectors say Iran is dangerously close to making a nuclear weapon. If it goes that route, the B-2 bomber has the stealth and payload needed to knock out buried nuclear sites.

February 10, 2025

'Like a car crash': Navy fighter pilot describes brain injury phenomenon now at center of congressional probe

The House Oversight Committee is demanding the Navy reveal more information about a secret effort to learn more about a brain injury phenomenon among its most elite fighter pilots.

January 29, 2025

China's two new stealth fighters should send shockwaves through Pentagon

The competition to win the next war is heating up fast. China just released videos of two different sixth-generation planes, putting it substantially ahead of US military development.

January 7, 2025

Trump threatens to tap allies for military shipbuilding if US can't produce

President-elect Donald Trump, fed up with America’s lagging ship-building capabilities, offered an out-of-character solution to the problem: Outsource production if the U.S. can’t keep up.

December 25, 2024

Here's how many US service members are spending the holidays away from home deployed overseas

As millions of Americans gather together with loved ones to celebrate the Christmas holiday and ring in the new year, hundreds of thousands more will mark the holidays away from family.

December 11, 2024

US Navy defeats Houthi attacks in Gulf of Aden for second time in weeks

U.S. Navy destroyers USS Stockdale (DDG 106) and USS O’Kane (DDG 77) successfully defeated a range of Houthi-launched weapons while transiting the Gulf of Aden for the second time.

December 2, 2024

America’s nuclear submarine crisis on a collision course with China

Our nuclear submarine fleet is in big trouble. Production and repairs are backlogged. We can't even manufacture two per year and China is catching up. Trump team has to move fast.

December 1, 2024

Navy putting first shipborne hypersonic weapon on vessel once seen as 'costly blunder'

The US is deploying a shipborn hypersonic missile battery to the USS Zumwalt, a destroyer once thought a major mistake.