China far outpacing US in military, commercial ship numbers
The U.S. Navy is still considered the most powerful in the world when it comes to firepower and tonnage, but the number of ...
The US Navy's oldest active submarine — the missile-packed USS Ohio — is back in action for unrestricted ops in the Pacific
The nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine USS Ohio carries over 150 missiles and is back in action after three years of ...
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US Navy organizing a new Fleet covering the Indian and Pacific oceans
Currently, the US Navy’s Seventh Fleet ... and actually put a numbered fleet where it would be extremely relevant if, God forbid, we were to ever get in any kind of a dust-up,” Mr Braithwaite ...
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F-35 fighter jets conduct flight operations aboard USS America in Philippine Sea
U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region. 21,000 DOD workers approved ...
Navy faces uphill battle to expand fleet amid shipbuilding challenges, warns GAO report
The Navy will retire 13 more warships than it commissions over the next three years, shrinking the fleet to 283 vessels.