US Senator criticises Navy combat ship program

15:46 Virginia-class attack submarine USS Minnesota (AFP Photo) The United States Navy announced that it will postpone the commissioning of its new nuclear-powered submarine, the North Dakota, due to an investigation into the quality of ...

United States Navy scientists have successfully flown a radio-controlled airplane that runs purely on fuel derived from sea water. Scientists obtained the fuel using the US Naval Research Laboratory’s gas-to-liquid technology, which involved removing carbon dioxide from water at 92 per cent efficiency while simultaneously producing hydrogen. The CO2 and hydrogen gases were then converted into a liquid hydrocarbon fuel, using a metal catalyst in a separate reactor system, Gizmag reported.

The United States is scrapping plans for a Navy ship to join a fleet review in China after key ally, Japan, was not invited, US officials said on Thursday, in a move that came just ahead of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's trip to Japan and China. The United ...

A Singapore businessman has pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States as part of a widening bribery scandal involving contracting services for US Navy ships. Alex Wisidagama, 38, a citizen of Singapore and cousin of the executive running the firm at the ...

Things just got a lot tenser between the United States and Russia. Yesterday, a Russian fighter jet deliberately and repeatedly buzzed the USS Donald Cook, a destroyer that was transiting the Black Sea towards the Romanian port of Constanta. This ...

This is the third such facility in the world, after United States and Ukraine. The SBTF, which was commissioned recently, is primarily used for flight testing of naval aircraft that operate from aircraft carriers, the official said. Initially conceptualized ...

Sydney:The United States Navy ismoving one of its high-tech Black Box detectors closer to thesearch area for a missing Malaysia Airlines plane inremote seas off the Australian coast, bolstering hopes wreckageof the plane may be found

When we hear the word drone we automatically think of UVF (unmanned flying vehicles). When the word drone is associated with a branch of the military we think about surveillance, spying and weapons. The Navy's Bluefin-21 is a different type of ...

Insufficient resources? THE recent revelation that the United States Navy is actually facing difficulties in maintaining ships in the Pacific due to a lack of funding has cast serious doubt as to the actual ability of Washington to implement its ...