The U.S. Navy has a lot of different types of warships, and while its aircraft carriers, destroyers, and different types of submarines are well known, they're hardly the only vessels in service. In ...

The U.S. Navy is making unexpected moves in one of the world’s most critical waterways. As tensions rise in the[...] ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A stock picture of the US Navy's Avenger class mine-hunter USS Pioneer. USS Tulsa was also tracked sailing northwest in the Strait ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A merchant vessel transports decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships through the Arabian Gulf. (MC2 Iain ...

All eyes watching the Iran war are still, rightly, on the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has controlled it since March 1, only ...

A noteworthy fact about the Avenger-class minesweepers is that their hulls are constructed of wood—so as to avoid metal hull detection technology in modern naval mines. A Game of Go The primary ...

The Strait of Hormuz, through which a significant portion of the world’s oil passes, requires specialized warships balancing advanced firepower with maneuverability in confined waters threatened by ...