A Seahawk USV participates in a U.S. Pacific Fleet exercise, April 2021. (CMCS Shannon Renfroe/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy is moving swiftly to integrate and deploy unmanned surface vessels, with three ...

Navy Secretary John Phelan speaks at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club on Dec. 22, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida. (Alex Brandon/AP) The head of the U.S. Navy spoke at a military conference ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) at Pier 3 in 2020. Work has ...

Navy SEAL trainees and other sailors hoping to join one of a handful of hard-charging Navy jobs have to pass many brutal fitness tests. But beginning this year, fully qualified SEALs and others in ...

Members of the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet reserve unit perform pushups for their physical fitness assessment on May 15, 2022. (MC2 Daniel Cleary/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

President Donald Trump’s recent announcement that the Navy will build “battleships” again was not the only blast from the past. If they are ever built, the ships would each feature an electromagnetic ...

Vice President JD Vance joined Navy SEALs for an intense, 90-minute beach workout Monday featuring running, rope-climbing, and log-carrying exercises that left the veep feeling like he “got hit by a ...

President Donald Trump announced plans Monday for a new class of large Navy warships bearing his name. The so-called “Trump-class” ships would be described as battleships, though officials say they ...

The Navy plans to bring back its heavily armed class of warship known as battleships, and it will arm them with the most modern weaponry, including nuclear missiles, President Donald Trump announced ...

President Donald Trump on stage after speaking to troops aboard the USS George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan, Oct. 28, 2025. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP) President Donald Trump announced Monday the U.S.

Harrison Kass’s recent piece recommending the abolition of the Marine Corps argues that the corps is a redundant relic that should be subsumed by the Army. This zombie idea, reanimated for clicks in ...

The victory secured the Commander-in-Chief’s Trophy for Navy for the second consecutive year. Navy quarterback Blake Horvath threw to Eli Heidenreich for the go-ahead touchdown with less than seven ...