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US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said he had promised Chinese President Xi Jinping (習近平) that the US would “abide by the Taiwan agreement,” but did not clarify what that agreement was. The US-Taiwan relationship is characterized by the stipulations laid out in the Three Joint Communiques, the Taiwan Relations Act, the “six assurances” and the Taiwan Travel Act. Of those, only the Three Joint Communiques represent agreements between China and the US on the issue of Taiwan — the o...

The Navy and the Pentagon are crunching numbers on two separate sets of studies that will map out the size of the service’s future fleet as defense budgets are set to stay static for the foreseeable future, officials familiar with the studies told USNI News. The Navy is performing its own assessment of the fleet […]

Large Scale Exercise 2021 was a look at how the Navy might fight China and Russia at the same time.

ABOARD THE LITTORAL COMBAT SHIP USS KANSAS CITY, OFF THE COAST OF CALIFORNIA – The Navy has made several adjustments to its practices aboard surface ships and at shipyards in the wake of the fire that gutted an amphibious warship last year. The service has placed a renewed focus on fire safety and altered how […]

Commissioned on August 5, 1989, the USS Ingraham (FFG-61) was the last Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate to be constructed, and the fourth US Navy vessel...

The USS America and the Queen Elizabeth held a cross-deck training exercise Friday near the Hawaiian Islands, the first time the two flagships and their groups have worked together.

During the recent Large Scale Exercise 21 (LSE 21), the U.S. joint forces conducted coordinated multi-domain, multi-platform, long-range maritime strikes on a retired frigate off the coast of Hawaii. A video released by the U.S. Navy shows the ship getting obliterated by a Mk 48 torpedo fired from a fast-attack submarine.

Koreas strategic importance growing amid US-China tensions

The US Marine Corps (USMC) is inching closer to fielding a mobile, anti-ship weapon system ideal for the Indo-Pacific region and recently test-fired two missiles that hit a sea-based target, the service announced on 17 August. As part of the...

The Navy is sending the amphibious warship USS Arlington (LPD-24) to assist with the humanitarian aid mission in Haiti in the aftermath of an Aug. 14 earthquake, Pentagon officials said on Tuesday. The aftermath of the 7.2 magnitude earthquake has killed at least 1,941 and wreaked havoc across the southwestern Tiburon Peninsula. Almost 10,000 people […]