Surface Forces

Super Hornet Incident, Houthi Attacks Help Refine How Surface Force Fights, Say Admirals

January 14, 2025 6:26 PM - Updated: January 15, 2025 6:15 AM

The Navy is already analyzing and training to prevent a repeat of a December friendly fire incident that saw USS Gettysburg (CG-62) shoot down a F/A-18 fighter jet. However, investigations into what happened are still underway and public details are…

White House: Next Two Aircraft Carriers Named for Bill Clinton, George W. Bush

January 13, 2025 6:09 PM - Updated: January 14, 2025 8:39 AM

Marines to Add Self-Driving Tech to Anti-Ship Missile Launchers

January 13, 2025 1:00 PM - Updated: January 14, 2025 5:59 AM

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Jan. 13, 2025

January 13, 2025 11:22 AM

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world…

SECNAV Del Toro Names Ships for Ocean Explorers, Fallen Marine, Hospital City

January 10, 2025 6:16 PM - Updated: January 12, 2025 10:56 PM

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named a slew of future Navy ships this week, including the new line…

Top Stories 2024: South China Sea Flashpoints

January 10, 2025 4:33 PM

Last year, Chinese and Philippine forces came head-to-head at multiple maritime features throughout the South China Sea in the most…

Report to Congress on Navy Ship Names

January 8, 2025 11:49 AM

The following is the Jan. 6, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress.…

Navy Plan to Buy 85 New Ships Will Cost $1 Trillion, CBO Says

January 7, 2025 8:11 PM - Updated: January 7, 2025 8:49 PM

The 2025 plan to recapitalize the Navy’s fleet will cost about $40.1 billion annually — about double what the service…

CBO Analysis of U.S. Navy’s Fiscal Year 2025 Shipbuilding Plan

January 7, 2025 5:12 PM

The following is the Jan. 6, 2024, Congressional Budget Office report, An Analysis of the Navy’s 2025 Shipbuilding Plan.…

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Jan. 6, 2025

January 6, 2025 12:49 PM

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world…

SECNAV Del Toro Names Destroyer After Carrier Intrepid

January 3, 2025 4:47 PM

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named the sea service’s newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Intrepid (DDG-145), the…

Carrier USS Carl Vinson Back in the South China Sea, French Carrier in Indian Ocean

January 3, 2025 4:34 PM

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is back in the South China Sea following a port visit to Port Klang,…

Top Stories 2024: The Battle Between the Houthis and Commercial Shipping

January 2, 2025 8:58 PM - Updated: January 2, 2025 11:32 PM

For more than half of 2024, the view for the sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) or one of…

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