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March 2, 2021

US Naval Academy coronavirus outbreak sends 98 midshipman to hotel for quarantine

The U.S. Naval Academy has moved 98 midshipmen recovering from COVID-19 to the Hilton Garden Inn in Annapolis, Maryland in an effort to provide additional space for quarantining and isolation at the college's Bancroft Hall dormitory. 

February 26, 2021

China tracks Navy destroyer in Taiwan Strait, accuses US of undermining regional stability

This is the second transit through the Taiwan Strait by the U.S. Navy in February.

February 25, 2021

Navy task force pledge on discrimination, 'intersectional identities': What we know

The Task Force One Navy recently made diversity-related recommendations that include de-emphasizing standardized academic tests when evaluating Navy recruits and renaming ships and other assets with "problematic" names.

February 22, 2021

Pensacola Navy shooting victims accuse Kingdom of Saudi Arabia of helping to facilitate attack

The 158-page complaint, filed in federal court in Pensacola on Monday, claims the shooter, Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) 2nd Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Shamrani, had fellow Saudi military trainees as "accomplices" to assist him in carrying out the attack. 

February 17, 2021

US Navy seizes large cache of smuggled weapons off Somalia

The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of weapons being smuggled by two small ships off the coast of Somalia, it announced Tuesday, amid the grinding war in nearby Yemen.

January 18, 2021

Navy fast-tracks 'on-time' delivery of nuclear-armed Columbia-class submarine

The entire premise of undersea strategic deterrence is based on the need for nuclear-armed ballistic missile submarines to hold potential attackers at risk of catastrophic destruction, without being found, detected, or seen by enemies in any way. 

January 17, 2021

New Navy destroyer-fired laser will change maritime war

When the Navy is ready to deploy a new 60kw ship-fired laser weapon from a destroyer later this year, maritime attack strategy and tactics will enter new dimensions of massive warfare on the open seas.

January 17, 2021

Navy to deploy destroyers with new laser attack weapon

Navy destroyers will soon be armed with high-powered, precision 60kw laser weapons that can track and incinerate attacking drone targets at sea, bringing new “at-the-speed-of-light” attack technology to maritime warfare in new ways.

January 16, 2021

Iranian missiles land within 20 miles of ship, 100 miles from Nimitz strike group in Indian Ocean: officials

EXCLUSIVE: Long-range missiles from Iran splashed down close to a commercial ship in the Indian Ocean Saturday and 100 miles from the Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group, Fox News has learned, in the latest example of rising tensions in the region. 

January 12, 2021

Man in bearskin headress in Capitol was booted from Navy over refusal of vaccine, report says

A shirtless rioter wearing a horned bearskin headdress who stormed the Capitol during a mob attack served in the Navy but was booted after refusing to take a vaccine, according to media reports.