Despite the largest loss of life sustained by one family in the U.S. Navy's history, Alleta and Thomas were determined to ...

The best bar trivia teams, and perhaps even a few Jeopardy champions, might be stumped by the trivia question: what is the ...

The motor torpedo boat (MTB), also known as the patrol torpedo (PT) boat, has acquired its own special swashbuckling aura ...

HNoMS Roald Amundsen, a Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate, can house a crew of 120 personnel. Her weapons include the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile, which has a range of more than 30 miles. She can also ...

Gunichi Mikawa surprised an Allied cruiser squadron off Savo Island, sinking USS Astoria, Quincy and Vincennes and His Majesty’s Australian Ship Canberra. It left the Allies demoralized.

USS PT-194 refueling from the ... Oldendorf’s ships were able to catch up with the slow-moving Mogami. Louisville, Portland and Denver immediately engaged it. Several direct hits rekindled ...

Robbie McClaran During a test flight last year off the Pacific coast of Latin America, an aerial drone launched from the USS McInerney relayed back to the ship ... hour east of Portland, Oregon ...

Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD 27) conducts a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration on a static surface training target on Dec. 14 while sailing in the Gulf of Aden. U.S.

Victor Glover embarked the ship for Underway Recovery Test 12 ... of the Orion spacecraft from the Artemis I mission using amphibious transport dock USS Portland (LPD 27), and with the addition of ...

Last year, The War Zone reported that China seemed to have installed a laser-directed energy weapon on one of its Type 071 amphibious assault ships. The US installed a similar system on board the San ...

in Portland Maine. He joined the Maine Citizens Military Training ... Chief Smith served on the Senior Staff of the USS Chicago CG-11, Flag Ship for the USS Kitty Hawk Aircraft Carrier. My father ...