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Lucas Tomlinson

This Navy veteran reported live from war-torn Ukraine

By Jessica Manfre

Big Tech wants the Navy’s old nuclear reactors to power the AI revolution

By Adam Gramegna

Tom Cruise Top Cun

Our ranking of 14 call signs from ‘Top Gun’

Phil McConkey touchdown in Super Bowl

This former Navy pilot became one of the unlikeliest Super Bowl champions ever

By Stephen Ruiz

Littoral Combat Ship USS Detroit

The Littoral Combat Ship’s checkered past and how it all went wrong

By Stephen Ruiz

How the Growler disabled Venezuela’s air defense system

By Stephen Ruiz

donald trump class battleship uss defiant navy

The Navy is bringing back battleships with the Trump-class USS Defiant

By Miguel Ortiz

Operation praying mantis

The U.S. Navy unloaded on the Iranians in the most explosive surface battle since World War II

By Blake Stilwell

narco-terrorist drug boat

3 cheaper ways the Navy could destroy a narco-terrorist drug boat

By Miguel Ortiz

cribbage navy submariners

How cribbage became the card game that rules the Navy’s Submarine Force

By Daniella Horne

Sidewinder loading

The Navy is spending $1.1 billion on the most successful air-to-air missile in the world

By Miguel Ortiz

peanut butter shot

Why the ‘peanut butter’ shot is the most dreaded injection

By Tim Kirkpatrick

A thermal camera image shows an Iranian F-14 on the ground with targeting sites overlaid on it.

Aviation nerds are mourning Iran’s F-14 Tomcats

the usns harvey milk

Here are the untold perils of renaming a vessel

By Blake Stilwell

Gray military fighter jet with the number 533 on the nose and tail, parked on a concrete runway with trees and water in the background. The jet has twin vertical stabilizers, external fuel tanks, and missiles mounted under its wings.

$580 million contract awarded to Raytheon for new Navy jammer

By Miguel Ortiz

Rendering of SSN-AUKUS submarine (BAE Systems)

We need to double submarine production…while cutting the budget

Tom Cruise receives Navy’s highest civilian honor

Tom Cruise receives Navy’s highest civilian honor

By Miguel Ortiz

The ‘unluckiest’ U-boat of World War II couldn’t even sink itself

The ‘unluckiest’ U-boat of World War II couldn’t even sink itself

HONOLULU, HI - DECEMBER 11: A ziploc bag is used to cover Jamie Williams' bathroom faucet at her Aliamanu Military Reservation home in Honolulu, HI on December 11, 2021. Williams, like many other Hawaii residents, has been forced to contain the fuel leaking into their water supply. (Photo by Marie Eriel Hobro/For the Washington Post)

Lead detected in tap water on Hawaii military base

Union Navy at Mobile Bay

Today in military history: Union victory at Mobile Bay