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Another leak prompts new calls to shut down Navy’s massive Red Hill fuel storage facility Another leak prompts new calls to shut down Navy’s massive Red Hill fuel storage facility By Casey Lund | May 7, 2021 at 5:36 AM HST - Updated May 7 at 7:54 PM HONOLULU, Hawaii (HawaiiNewsNow) - The US Navy is continuing to monitor its massive Red Hill fuel storage facility following a leak of about 1,000 gallons of jet fuel on Thursday night. In a news release Friday, the Navy said the leak...

Get all our news and commentary in your inbox at 6 a.m. ET. email US Marines May Have Lost Their ‘Amphibious Edge,’ Leaders Say Top Marines tell Congress that after deadly AAV accident and years in Middle East, the Corps and its vehicles are unprepared for waterborne operations. The amphibious assault vehicle mishap that killed eight Marines and a sailor in July 2020 has spurred many “lessons learned” that leaders say will prevent anything so “tragic” from happening ...

In a high-tech war game on Sunday, the U.S. Pacific Fleet sent stealthy robot boats and flying drones to spot a target barge plying the waters off Southern California.

Share This: The Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Monsoor on April 21. (Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe/U.S. Navy) The first U.S. Navy warfighting vessels to be armed with hypersonic missiles will be the stealth Zumwalt-class destroyers, the service’s top admiral said, according to USNI News. While the Navy was expected to field hypersonic weaponry on its cruise-missile submarines first, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said at a Center ...

Navy’s first-ever unmanned fleet exercise launches off West Coast 1 hour ago U.S. Navy surface drones Seahawk, front, and Sea Hunter launched Tuesday during the Navys first-ever unmanned exercise in San Diego. (MC2 Thomas Gooley/Navy) As the Navy moves toward unmanning part of its future fleet via air, surface and underwater drones — plans that have prompted skepticism from some in Congress — U.S. 3rd Fleet hosted the sea service’s first-ever fleet exercise focused on unmanned syst...

Explorers Just Found the Remains of a WWII Hero Destroyer Kyle Mizokami © Caladan Oceanic/YouTube Underwater explorers have confirmed the identity of the sunken World War II destroyer USS Johnston. Johnston and her sister ships saved the lives of thousands of sailors taking on a much larger Japanese force during the World War II Battle of Samar. The explorers positively identified the sunken warship in nearly 4 miles of water, where it’s protected by U.S. law from looting. ...

Johnston and her sister ships saved the lives of thousands of sailors taking on a much larger Japanese force during the World War II Battle of Samar. The explorers positively identified the sunken warship in nearly 4 miles of water, where it’s protected by U.S. law from looting. Explorers have finally identified the remains of a U.S. Navy destroyer that sunk during one of the most heroic actions of World War II. ➡ The USS Johnston went down defending a force of lightly armed escort carr...

Why America Desperately Needs the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter The reality is that the nation needs the F-35 and backing off the program now would present an exceedingly dangerous risk. The United States Air Force faces a crucial juncture regarding the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Anyone watching the news over recent months could not miss the high-velocity onslaught against the program. Whether it was House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith referring to the 5 th generation fighter as a “rathole�...

The U.S. Navy Once Dreamed of Building a "Battlecarrier" Even after the retirement of the last battleship, the idea of combining surface warships characteristics with aviation capabilities continues to entice major navies. Heres What You Need to Know: Over the long history of the Iowa-class, several proposals emerged for converting them into hybrid battlecarriers. The dream of the battlecarrier did not die in World War II, despite the substandard performance of many of the converted ships, and...

Norfolk Naval Shipyard, which is now powered by steam from burning four cities' trash, is building its own energy source. That likely means a different fate for hundreds of millions of pounds of garbage every year.