Maritime Security

U.S. Navy charters four landing-capable ships for Okinawa operations

The U.S. Navy has hired four civilian cargo ships capable of driving military vehicles directly onto beaches...

Boeing gets $121M to upgrade U.S. Navy and Australian submarine hunters

The aircraft the U.S. Navy relies on to hunt submarines and track enemy ships across millions of...

U.S. Marines get unmanned ship-killer missiles in Okinawa

The U.S. Marines stationed on Okinawa, Japan, can now sink enemy warships from land and shoot down...

Russia’s warship put garden mesh on its hull to stop drones

A photograph making the rounds among Russian military analysts shows the Russian Navy's latest answer to Ukraine's...

U.S. Navy research chief: stop copying what industry builds

The U.S. Navy is overhauling how it moves research from laboratory to warship, with its top science...

U.S. Marines launch spy drone from warship deep in the South China Sea

A surveillance drone that needs no runway, no catapult, and no dedicated launch infrastructure lifted off from...

Britain seeks missile launchers for its crewless warship fleet

Britain's military is exploring a radical new concept for its naval missile defenses, one where warships and...

Russia lays keel of ninth Yasen-M nuclear attack submarine

Russia laid the keel of a new nuclear-powered attack submarine on June 17, 2026, the first vessel...

Turkish firm STM builds second logistics ship for Portuguese Navy

Turkey has begun construction of a second naval replenishment and logistics support ship for the Portuguese Navy,...

Boeing wins $880M deal for P-8A training systems

The U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a contract with a ceiling of $880 million on June 18, with...

U.S. Navy spent $117M on torpedo sonar kits

Somewhere beneath the ocean's surface, a submarine the U.S. Navy can't see is the threat that keeps...

Ukraine’s drone-killing tech is heading to global markets

Ukraine's most demanding combat laboratory just produced two more weapons that a Greek defense company wants to...

Indo-Pacific Command is reverting to a Cold War era title

The single most important military headquarters in the Pacific got its old name back, and the decision...

REGENT completes the world’s first Seaglider factory in Rhode Island

REGENT Craft, the Rhode Island company building what it calls an entirely new category of maritime transportation,...

Spanish firm debuts autonomous catamaran at Eurosatory 2026

A Spanish defense technology company used the opening days of Eurosatory 2026 in Paris to publicly debut...

Ukraine’s navy gets its fifth mine-clearing warship

Russia sank the original Henichesk in 2022, striking the minesweeper with cruise missiles launched from occupied Crimea...

USS Colorado returns to fleet ahead of schedule

A nuclear-powered attack submarine completed its scheduled maintenance period at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard nearly a month...

U.S. Navy reestablishes submarine squadron in Australia

A submarine squadron that the U.S. Navy decommissioned fourteen years ago has been reestablished, this time not...
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