China Has A New Laser Weapon It Claims Beats The US Navy's - Here's What It's For

As drones get more prolific on the battlefield, technology is being developed to counter it. Now, China is touting a new ...

U.S. Navy Air-Launched Version Of ‘Cheap’ Blackbeard Hypersonic Missile Hinted At

The Castelion Corporation is now under contract to integrate its Blackbeard missile onto "operational" Navy and Army ...
Military.com

Fleet at Risk as Navy Struggles to Refill Missile Stores

Between October 2023 and January 2025, Navy ships fired more defensive missiles at incoming Houthi drones and rockets than they used in three decades following Desert Storm. They also launched ...
The National Interest on MSN

The German Navy Is Testing a New Laser Weapon

According to Rheinmetall, the German Navy’s directed energy weapon can engage a wide range of targets, including guided ...
GovCon Wire

BAE to Support Navy Ship Weapons, Combat Systems Under $188M Contract

BAE Systems Inc. has secured a potential five-year, $188.2M contract to help a U.S. Navy organization engineer, integrate and test certain systems aboard surface combatant ships. The company said ...
National Security Journal on MSN

The Navy Tried for 4 Weeks to Sink Their Own Aircraft Carrier

In a 2005 SINKEX, the U.S. Navy subjected the decommissioned aircraft carrier USS America (CV-66) to four weeks of “brutal ...
Task & Purpose

The Navy wants more ships, but can it get them built?

The Navy’s budget request for the 2026 fiscal year is its most ambitious shipbuilding push in years. After asking Congress for just six new ships in the last fiscal year, and nine in the one before ...
The Atlantic

U.S. Navy Will Convert a Ship into a Floating Chemical Weapons Disposal

The U.S. Navy has offered to convert one of its ships into a floating chemical weapons disposal, according to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the watchdog responsible for ...