The surface force will net a total of seven Littoral Combat Ships after the Navy shelved plans to decommission the hulls ahead of their expected service lives, USNI News has learned. Service officials speaking earlier this month at the Surface Navy Association said the Navy had reversed plans to decommission five Freedom-class and two Independence-class LCS.

U.S. naval and air forces are moving toward the Middle East as tensions with Iran rise, highlighting deterrence efforts, escalation risks, and what the buildup means for servicemembers operating in the region.

President Donald Trump said Iran is negotiating “seriously" with the U.S. as he keeps military options on the table and American naval forces move into the region.

The Pentagon has sent a host of U.S. military assets into the Middle East over the past several weeks, including an aircraft carrier group and its thousands of troops, as

BAE Systems has secured two contracts from the US Navy, with a combined value of $98m, to undertake scheduled modernisation work on two the Littoral Combat Ship USS Kansas City (LCS 22) and guided missile destroyer USS Stockdale (DDG 106).

As President Donald Trump considers a major strike on Iran after discussions about limiting that nation’s nuclear program and ballistic missile production haven’t progressed, the US military has accelerated a weeks-long buildup of military hardware in the Middle East,

The US Navy (USN) is still pushing its forces to meet an 80% combat-surge-ready goal even as leadership acknowledges meeting that number will still be difficult

The United States is set to modernize one of its combat ships and a