The Pioneering Spirit, initially named Pieter Schelte after Allseas founder Edward Heerema’s father who served in the German ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...

In 1988, USS Samuel B Roberts struck an Iranian mine while maneuvering in the Persian Gulf. The explosion nearly broke the ...

Its common for the U.S. Navy to reuse ship names, and the newest nuclear submarine in the fleet was named after an important ...

President Trump’s plan for new American battleships appears to be going for a “bigger-is-better” mantra — perhaps a nod to the commander-in-chief whose name they will carry. The Trump-class vessels ...

History also shows that many of the fanciful engineering ideas for Greenland failed because they misjudged the island’s harsh ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. Almost as soon as President Donald Trump announced that the ...

Everyone who's anyone in defense should profit off the new Trump-class battleships, but Huntington Ingalls and General ...

President Donald Trump has announced the construction of two new "Trump-class" battleships that would be the first in a "Golden Fleet" of Navy ships in the latest instance of Trump naming things after ...