US Navy News

Thursday morning, a Navy sailor stationed at Mayport, makes his first appearance in court.

Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Zach Lind, left, steers as Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class Shane Slater anchors a spill containment boom into place during a drill Monday in the West Basin as part of the Navy's annual hurricane preparedness exercise, HURREX/Citadel Gale 2013.

Capt. Carey Sill relieves Capt. Lee Cornforth as commanding officer, Navy Medicine Professional Development Center, at a ceremony held in Memorial Auditorium at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center last Friday.

The Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aircraft system completed its first flight on May 22, 2013.

Syrianews managed to confirm the news we received a couple of days ago that a Syrian Navy boat destroyed an Israeli submarine off the Syrian coast at 150 meters depth on 02 May 2013 around 2 - 2:30 am.

It was one year ago that fire broke out aboard the USS Miami, a nuclear powered submarine docked at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

World War II veteran Eddie Aho, 91, of New Ipswich rides in the Memorial Day parade in New Ipswich on Sunday.

Navy SEAL dog handler John Douangdara was killed two years ago in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan, along with his dog Bart.

There will be Cannon Salutes to Korean War Veterans and Civil War Sesquicentennial Recognition that will include the live firing of a black powder cannon and a 12-pound Mountain Howitzer, respectively, by Allen, Linda and Noah Lyon of the 3rd Light Artillery, Waukon.

The Northrop Grumman Corporation -built MQ-4C Triton high-altitude unmanned aircraft successfully completed its first flight today from the company's manufacturing facility in Palmdale.

Editor's Note: The following story was written by Capt. Sterling Smith, U.S. Navy.

The US Navy trains dolphins and sea lions to find mines - something I noted , good Lord, over a decade ago ! - and recently some Navy dolphins discovered a Howell torpedo off Coronado : Until recently only one Howell torpedo was known to exist, on display at the Naval Undersea Museum in Keyport, Wash.

India on Wednesday successfully test-fired its supersonic BrahMos cruise missile from a warship off the coast of the western state of Goa, sources said.

Rep. Randy Forbes , the chairman of the House Armed Services seapower subcommittee, said the Navy is living in a "fantasy land" by putting forward a 30-year shipbuilding plan when the service can't guarantee funding beyond five years.

A Maritime Self-Defence Force patrol plane used sound waves emitted from a sonobuoy against a submarine detected in the contiguous zone around Minami-Daitojima island in Okinawa Prefecture on Sunday, according to government sources.

Ronald E. Evans was a U.S. Navy pilot and combat flight instructor when he was selected in 1966 as one of 19 NASA astronauts.

USS Scorpion was a Skipjack -class nuclear submarine of the United States Navy , and the sixth ship of the U.S. Navy to carry that name.

Two defense contractors have been sentenced to three years in prison for their part in a fraud and bribery scheme involving phony payments for the repair of military aircraft at North Island Naval Air Station in Coronado.

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Navy Seaman Cruz Boseman smiles as he walks off the USS Anchorage during the ship's commissioning ceremony Saturday, May 4, at the Port of Anchorage.