The Navy built the first Aegis cruisers using the hull and machinery designs of Spruance class destroyers. The commissioning of USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) opened a new era in surface warfare as the ...

Martial sage Carl von Clausewitz might be bewildered by high-tech aircraft, computers, and missiles. But he would instantly ...

"Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." At around 0300, on Sunday, 22 December, the Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) shot down an F/A-18F preparing to land on USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75 ...

But there were reasons to temper that optimism. The shipyard had delivered its final Aegis cruiser, the USS Lake Erie, in 1993 — with no more in that pipeline. The workforce was 9,300 ...

The USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier arrived at a key naval base in the southeastern city of Busan on Sunday, South Korea's ...