On August 17, 12 civilian vessels are located in their home waters off the Chinese coast. The vessels will soon set off for a landing beach in Guangdong Province. To trace their movements, Reuters ...

Everything was set for the Navy officer to take over a new role that would have capped an already distinguished career— and made her the first woman in a Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy ...

The guided-missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG-76) slipped quietly into the contested waters near Scarborough Shoal on the morning of Aug.13. As it pressed toward the edge of China’s declared ...

The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford may be the Navy’s newest carrier, but it hasn’t shied away from conflict since its first full-length deployment in 2023. That year, the Ford originally departed ...

Battlefield has always had an odd relationship with naval warfare—it's featured, just never very prominently—but it was odd to see Battlefield 6 outright ignore boats altogether. Given that none of ...

Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean – ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy ...

Ukraine's Security Service officers stand by Sea Baby drones during a demonstration at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, Oct. 17, 2025. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP) KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine’s state ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Close to 200 years after first being used to assert geopolitical dominance, gunboat ...

Andrew Latham does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

October 19, 2025: The drone revolution, which began during the current war in Ukraine, has forced armies and air forces to rethink how they operate and adapt to dealing with thousands of cheap drones ...

TL;DR: Dataminers have uncovered code in Battlefield 6 indicating active development of naval warfare, including vehicles like Jet Skis and RHIBs. While developers acknowledge community demand, ...

Ukraine’s naval drones have sunk warships, hit oil terminals, and even downed Russian helicopters and fighter jets over the Black Sea. Ukraine has turned to drones and asymmetrical warfare to counter ...