There are over half a dozen US Navy warships in the Caribbean amid efforts to crack down on the drug trade.

The USS Stockdale's transit highlights a U.S. Caribbean buildup targeting Venezuelan-linked drug networks and pressuring Maduro's government.

All in all, the expansion of USV use is a promising experiment that could ameliorate the US Navy’s force-structure woes—while amplifying US fleets’ combat power in a hurry.

The American destroyer USS Higgins simulated an expeditionary reload of a Standard Missile-2 last month.

This post has been updated to correct the status of Military Sealift Command ships that are being transferred to the Maritime Administration. The Navy is quietly decommissioning ships from the fleet as Fiscal Year 2025 wraps up in less than two weeks.

Stockdale, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, becomes the ninth Navy ship and third destroyer in the region.

The Navy on Sept. 25 conducted a decommissioning ceremony for the last of four Avengers-class mine countermeasures ships serving in the Middle East, Naval

The missile-packed uncrewed ‘wingmen’ are intended to support Germany's conventional surface combatants by adding a big boost in firepower.