There's a "USS" in the name of every commissioned ship in the United States Navy. But other designations are more obscure.

The United States Navy has used the same standards to assign names and hull numbers to its vessels for more than a century.

(US Navy) The US Navy (USN) is changing the way it conducts the planning and execution for big-deck amphibious ship maintenance availabilities, USN officials noted on 7 April during a panel on ...

The opening ceremony was held aboard the Indian Navy’s INS Jalashwa , reflecting the deepening convergence of US-India strategic ... joint training in maritime, amphibious and HADR operations ...

Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD-4) arrived in Guam for a scheduled port visit, Oct, 30, 2024. US Navy Photo NATIONAL ... will drive down the number of delay days on the ...

The Army has access to tanks and ground forces, the Navy has domain over the ocean, the Marine Corps is an expeditionary force trained in a variety of missions, and the Air Force rules the skies.

The US Navy carried out airstrikes against the Ras ... National Security Advisor Michael Waltz claimed a number of Houthi leaders were killed, while Secretary of State Marco Rubio claimed a ...

U.S. Marines perform a rifle salute on board the Battleship Missouri Memorial during a ceremony marking the 80th anniversary of the 1945 kamikaze attack on the USS Missouri and subsequent burial ...

(US Navy) The US Navy (USN) and the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) intercepted a simulated hypersonic target during a joint test and evaluation exercise on 24 March off the coast of Hawaii ...

(John Narewski/U.S. Navy) The Navy formally unleashed its newest Virginia-class fast attack submarine, the Iowa, in a commissioning ceremony Saturday in Groton, Connecticut. The 377-foot vessel ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday (April 15) awarded the Commander-in-Chief trophy to the U.S. Navy Midshipmen football team of the United States Naval Academy. Trump welcomed the football ...

The Navy recently deployed another warship, which successfully repelled multiple Iranian-backed Houthi attacks, to secure the southern border. USS Stockdale, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile ...