Category: Navy

NATO Launches Large-Scale Crisis Response Exercise in Mediterranean Sea

The United States and 11 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) have begun large-scale navy exercises this week in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in a crisis-response exercise dubbed “Dynamic Mariner.” According to a statement from officials, Dynamic Mariner is “held in conjunction with the Turkish Navy’s Exercise Mavi Balina, which brings together 12 Allied…


NATO Begins Large-Scale Crisis Response Exercise in Mediterranean Sea

The United States and 11 other members of the NATO alliance have begun large-scale naval exercises in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in a crisis-response exercise dubbed “Dynamic Mariner.” Dynamic Mariner is “held in conjunction with the Turkish Navy’s Exercise Mavi Balina, which brings together 12 Allied nations off the coast of Turkiye,” according to a…


Sailor Killed at Pearl Harbor Is Laid to Rest, at Last

CHICAGO—A 21-year-old sailor was laid to rest Tuesday following a decades-long effort to identify remains pulled from Pearl Harbor, more than 80 years after he was killed in the attack that propelled the United States into World War II. Members of Herbert “Bert” Jacobson’s family waited all their lives to attend a memorial for the…


China and US Heading Into ‘Long Period’ of Naval Competition: Expert

The United States and China are entering a period of prolonged naval competition and possible conflict, according to one expert. Bruce Jones, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that American and Chinese leadership had learned from history that the greatest world powers required powerful navies and that the two were competing for maritime…


Navy Wants New Destroyer With Lasers, Hypersonic Missiles

BATH, Maine—The U.S. Navy’s workhorse destroyer went into production more than 30 years ago, when Tom Stevens was a young welder. Now, the Navy is getting ready to turn the page as it looks to a future ship brimming with lasers that can shoot down missiles and attack enemies with hypersonic missiles topping 3,800 mph….


Busted Generator Forces Canadian Warship to Quit Mission to High Arctic: Navy

A mechanical breakdown has forced one of Canada’s newest warships to abandon a mission to the Arctic. HMCS Harry DeWolf was en route to join Operation Nanook in the Far North when one of its four diesel generators failed on Wednesday, The Royal Canadian Navy confirmed Friday. As a result, the ship was turned around…


97-Year-Old Veteran Recounts Top Secret Aerial Battle Hidden From American Public for Decades

In an aerial “dogfight” that made U.S. naval history, Korean War veteran Royce Williams beat out seven Russian fighter jets on his own through nearly impossible odds—one he was forbidden from discussing for more than 40 years amid Cold War tension. The year was 1952, in the midst of the Korean War. Williams was stationed…


Navy Expedites Waterborne Drones to Close Gap With China

Facing a growing threat from the Chinese communist regime, the Navy envisions drone ships keeping an electronic eye on enemy forces across the vast Pacific Ocean, extending the reach of firepower, and keeping sailors out of harm’s way. The Navy is speeding development of those robotic ships as an affordable way to keep pace with…


Wife of US Navy Lieutenant Jailed in Japan Calls on Lawmakers to Bring Him Home

The family of Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy lieutenant who was sentenced in Japan to three years’ prison over a deadly car accident he was involved in last year, is calling on lawmakers and the White House to help bring him home. Brittany Alkonis, the wife of the 34-year-old specialist in undersea warfare and acoustic engineering…


Navy Pilot About to Crash, Terrified, Flies Out of His Body, Sees the Light, His Creator—Now Reveals His Story

“The moment I realized I was about to die—and knew I only had seconds left to live before the airplane slammed into one of the emergency response vehicles prepositioned on the side of the runway—I experienced a deeply visceral and raw terror in my heart and my entire body.” So said retired Navy flight engineer…