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Japan aims to bolster capabilities to defend and recapture remote islands, especially in its southwestern Nansei island chain ...

With the start of the new year, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island has left something behind which leaders say is a major cultural shift for the Navy as a whole — the EP-3E Aries II surveillance ...

Russia wields a formidable capability to target NATO’s undersea infrastructure in critical regions such as the Baltic, ...

The Chinese LHD is 237m long and 35m wide. Air defense consists of two 30mm CIWS Close in Weapons Systems and two HQ-10 SAM Surface to Air Missile launchers.

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro named the Navy’s newest Arleigh Burke-class Guided Missile Destroyer, the future USS Intrepid (DDG 145) aboard the former aircraft carrier which shares its ...

The Combat Information Center (CIC) is the nerve center and tactical brain of a U.S. Navy surface combatant. With this in mind, TWZ spoke with multiple surface warfare officers (SWOs) about the ...

Fortunately, the economy of the U.S., with a GDP of about $30 trillion, is large enough to fund advanced aircraft, a modern ...

Todd Borkey, chief technology officer of HII’s Mission Technologies division, said the emergence of technologies that accelerated data collection and processing at the edge has paved the way for new ...

Even when deployed alongside U.S., British, Australian, or other allied naval powers, the Chinese A2/AD threat to surface ...

China's new Type 055 destroyer rivals the capabilities of the US's aging Ticonderoga class and may exceed it in threatening other ships.

Since 1945 the navy has adapted to a smaller fleet and decline of the American ship building industry. Over the last three decades China has become the largest shipbuilder in the world, turning out ...