On August 2, 1964, USS Maddox was conducting an intelligence-gathering mission in the volatile waters of the Gulf of Tonkin.

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On Monday, the USS Benfold left Yokosuka, Japan, where it had been based since October 2015, and began its journey back to the United States. For these 10 years, the warship was an integral part of ...

The USS Stockdale, a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, has entered the Caribbean Sea after a high-profile transit of the Panama Canal, reinforcing U.S. naval presence in the ...

The USS Stockdale arrived in Panama during the weekend on its way to joining the growing U.S. Navy presence in the Caribbean as part of President Donald Trump’s campaign to combat drug cartels.

USS Laboon , shown here operating in the Red Sea in June 2024, performed the first at-sea Nulka reloading. (Janes/Michael Fabey) Guided missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) performed the first US ...

Iran deployed a naval helicopter to warn off a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Gulf of Oman, the country's state media reported, in a clash Tehran says forced the American vessel to retreat. Newsweek has ...

The ship is the first Zumwalt class to visit Yokosuka since USS Zumwalt’s 2022 visit, which was the first ever port call for the class in the Western Pacific region. USS Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001), ...

The Navy on Friday announced a third destroyer is being sent to the southern border to aid in the ongoing efforts to patrol the U.S.-Mexico boundary in an effort to curb illegal immigration and drug ...

The Defense Department is sending another destroyer, USS Cole, to the southern border mission. Cole is the latest destroyer to go from the Red Sea conflict to America's backyard. The warship is one of ...

USS Sampson (DDG-102) conducts a routine port call onboard Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Port Hueneme on Nov. 15, 2024. US Navy Photo A West Coast destroyer departed on Tuesday as the latest ship ...