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China's growing weapons programs puts pressure on intelligence community.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Can U.S. Intel Keep Up With China’s Tsunami Of Weapons Developments?

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Nov 7, 2025

China has now formally commissioned its first catapult-equipped aircraft carrier, the Fujian, into service.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

China Commissions Newest Aircraft Carrier With Its Electromagnetic Catapults Front And Center

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 7, 2025

The U.K. Royal Navy flagship, HMS Prince of Wales, is now carrying 24 F-35B fighters — the largest number to go aboard either of the U.K’s two aircraft carriers. This is a significant achievement for the British F-35 force, which has long faced questions about the feasibility of deploying a meaningful number of the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) jets at sea — without U.S. Marine Corps aircraft making up the numbers.
Royal Navy

British Carrier Hosts Largest Number Of F-35Bs On A Ship Ever

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 7, 2025

The USS Ford was ordered to the Middle East after CNO expressed concerns about the ships and crew after months at sea.
U.S. Navy

Carrier USS Ford Holding Off Of North Africa As Trump Reportedly Won’t Strike Venezuela

By Howard Altman

Updated on Nov 6, 2025

Chinese drone test ship seen in action.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Chinese ‘Mini Drone Carrier’ Seen Being Used As Test Ship

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 5, 2025

A high-ranking Russian official said Moscow recently delivered air defense systems to Venezuela.
U.S. Navy

Moscow Just Gave Venezuela Air Defenses, Not Ruling Out Strike Missiles: Russian Official

By Howard Altman

Posted on Nov 4, 2025

Photoex with NH90 due to com-testing at sea outside Bodø.
Norwegian Navy

Norway’s Sorry NH90 Helicopter Saga Finally Comes To An End

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 3, 2025

The USS Fort Lauderdale is returning to the Caribbean to rejoin the enhanced counter narcotics mission.
U.S. Navy

Amphibious Warship Returning To Caribbean, Report Claims U.S. Planning Strikes On Mexican Cartels

By Howard Altman

Updated on Nov 3, 2025

Russia has launched the first of its new Project 08951 class of nuclear-powered submarine, named Khabarovsk, which is intended to be armed with the Poseidon nuclear-powered, nuclear-tipped, ultra-long-endurance torpedo. At this stage, details of the new submarine remain scarce, but its completion, though long delayed, reflects the continued priority Moscow is assigning to strategic weapons systems, including novel ones without direct comparison.
Russian Navy

Russia’s New Nuclear Torpedo-Carrying Submarine Has Been Launched

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 3, 2025

The Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser USS Gettysburg has been deployed to the Caribbean as part of the ongoing counter-narcotics opertion.
U.S. Navy

Navy Cruiser Joins Caribbean Flotilla As Reports Claim U.S. Is Readying Venezuela Strikes (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 31, 2025

Flying aboard the M-346 Master jet trainer that could replace the Navy's T-45.
U.S. Navy

We Fly Aboard The M-346 That Could Become The Navy’s Next Jet Trainer

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Oct 30, 2025

President Vladimir Putin says that Russia successfully tested one of its Poseidon nuclear-powered, nuclear-tipped, ultra-long-endurance torpedoes yesterday. The Russian leader’s revelation comes just two days after the announcement of a first long-range test for the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile, and is part of a wider pattern of recent nuclear signaling by the Kremlin.
Russian Navy

Powered Test Of Poseidon Nuclear Torpedo, Putin Claims

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 29, 2025

Nimitz hornet and seakhawk crash
U.S. Navy

“Bad Fuel” May Have Caused Back-To-Back Nimitz Aircraft Crashes: Trump

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 27, 2025

The Navy has moved several warships deployed to the Caribbean out of the path of Hurricane Melissa.
U.S. Navy

Massive Hurricane Forces Movement Of Several Navy Ships Deployed To Caribbean

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 27, 2025

The U.S. Coast Guard is in line to get a new version of the H-60 helicopter based on the MH-60R Seahawk, which is in service with the U.S. Navy and other armed forces globally.
U.S. Coast Guard

Coast Guard Will Get A New MH-60 Variant To Replace MH-65 Helicopters

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Oct 24, 2025

The Navy explained why damage was still seen on the USS Harry Truman months after a collision at sea.
U.S. Navy

Carrier USS Truman’s Collision Damage Won’t Be Repaired Until It Goes Through Complex Overhaul

By Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 10, 2025

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Oyashio-class submarine JS Mocishio transits with ships assigned to Rim of the Pacific 2010 combined task force as part of a photo exercise noerth of Hawaii. RIMPAC, the world’s largest multinational maritime exercise is a biennial event which allows participating nations to work together to build trust and enhance partnerships needed to improve maritime security.
Japan Maritime Self Defense Force

Japan Will Arm Its Submarines With Long-Range Cruise Missiles

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 9, 2025

The U.S. Department of Defense may finally be ready to choose which company will develop and build the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter. A report from Reuters today states that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth personally gave the green light for the selection last Friday. However, this is not the first time that there have been reports that this decision was imminent, as you can read about here.
U.S. Navy

Navy F/A-XX Stealth Fighter Selection Imminent: Reports

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 7, 2025

Denmark intelligence claims Russia is threatening its warships as part of a hybrid war against NATO.
Navies

Russia’s Hybrid War Against NATO Ramping Up: Danish Intelligence

Howard Howard Altman

Posted on Oct 3, 2025

Is Trump’s Call For Putting Battleships Back In The Navy’s Fleet Even Feasible?
U.S. Navy

Is Trump’s Call For Putting Battleships Back In The Navy’s Fleet Even Feasible?

By Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway, Howard Altman

Updated on Oct 1, 2025

Authorities in Turkey say fishermen found an explosive-laden drone boat 900 miles away.
Russian Navy

Explosive-Packed Ukrainian Drone Boat Found 900 Miles Away In Turkey

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 30, 2025

apan Maritime Self-Defense Force guided missile destroyer JS Chokai (DDG 176) steams in close formation as one of 40 ships and submarines representing 13 international partner nations during Rim of the Pacific 2016. Twenty-six nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft, and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 30 to Aug. 4, in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The world's largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world's oceans. RIMPAC 2016 is the 25th exercise in the series that began in 1971.
Japan Maritime Self Defense Force

First Japanese Destroyer Heads To U.S. For Tomahawk Missile Modifications

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 30, 2025

War Secretary Pete Hegseth has summed top military leaders to an emergency meeting next week.
U.S. Navy

War Secretary’s Emergency Meeting A Mystery To Hundreds Of Top Officers Ordered To Attend

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 25, 2025

In what it claims is the first such attack in history, Ukraine has used drones to strike a pair of Russian Navy Be-12 twin-turboprop amphibians. The raid appears to have destroyed two of the extremely scarce amphibians, potentially halving the number of airworthy airframes available to Russia and leaving a question mark over its future service.
Russian Navy

Ukrainian Drones Strike Russia’s Rare Be-12 Flying Boats

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 22, 2025

J-35 launches aboard carrier.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

China’s Aircraft Carrier Capability Just Made A Stunning Leap Forward

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 22, 2025

13 September 2025, Puerto Rico, Ceiba: US Marines park a Lockheed Martin F-35B fighter aircraft at Roosevelt Roads Naval Station. The transfer of US fighter aircraft to the outlying area is linked to the increasing tensions between the United States and Venezuela. Photo: Kendall Torres Cortés/dpa (Photo by Kendall Torres Cortés/picture alliance via Getty Images)
U.S. Navy

Historic Shuttered Navy Base Back In Action For Caribbean Counter-Drug Mission

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 15, 2025

An official familiar with operations confirmed to us that U.S. President Donald Trump has ordered 10 F-35 Joint Strike fighters to head to Puerto Rico to take part in ongoing counter-narcotics opertions(
U.S. Navy

F-35s Deploying To Caribbean Amid Growing Tensions With Venezuela (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Updated on Sep 5, 2025

The Pentagon says two Venezuelan jets flew close to the USS Jason Dunham.
U.S. Navy

Venezuelan F-16s Approach U.S. Navy Warship (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Sep 5, 2025

Boeing has provided a new rendering for its F/A-XX proposal and it’s remarkably similar to concept artwork that has already been released for its F-47, selected for the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) ‘fighter’ initiative. While it’s important to not read too much into the final appearance of either of those aircraft, based on these concepts, the new rendering does, at least, correspond with Boeing’s previous suggestions that the F/A-XX and F-47 would incorporate some commonality.
U.S. Navy

Boeing’s New F/A-XX Next Gen Naval Fighter Concept Looks Familiar

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 29, 2025

Russia reportedly carried out its first drone boat attack on a Ukrainian Navy ship.
Russian Navy

Russia Just Made Its First Successful Drone Boat Attack On A Ukrainian Naval Ship

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 28, 2025

Individuals training to become U.S. Navy tactical jet pilots are no longer required to take off and land from aircraft carriers before being winged as Naval Aviators.
U.S. Navy

Carrier Qualifications Axed From Graduation Requirements For New Navy Fighter Pilots (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 28, 2025

Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Successor Sought By Navy
U.S. Navy

Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile Successor Sought By Navy

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 27, 2025

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Daniel Cheever, commonly referred to as the service's "Air Boss," is still "eagerly awaiting" a new F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based fighter despite the uncertainty now swirling around that program.
U.S. Navy

F/A-XX Next Generation Naval Fighter Selection Could Still Happen

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 25, 2025

Naval aviators need to be able to trust any future drone wingmen as much as their human counterparts, a U.S. Navy strike fighter tactics instructor has told TWZ.
U.S. Navy

Navy Fighter Pilots Need To Gain Trust In Pilotless Wingmen By Actually Flying With Them

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 22, 2025

The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has shared new insights with TWZ into its proposal to replace the U.S. Navy’s T-45 Goshawk jet trainers.
U.S. Navy

Everything We Just Learned About SNC’s Freedom Jet Trainer Aiming To Replace Navy T-45s

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 22, 2025

The U.S. Navy says the impacts from a fire that burned for approximately 12 hours aboard the USS New Orleans earlier this week are limited to forward areas of the ship, though a full assessment of the damage is still ongoing.
U.S. Navy

New Details On Status Of USS New Orleans After Fire

By Howard Altman, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 22, 2025

The Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has rolled out a new pitch for a successor to the Navy's T-45 Goshawk jet trainers.
U.S. Navy

SNC’s Freedom Jet Enters Race To Replace Navy’s T-45 Goshawk Trainer

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 21, 2025

Destroyers heading to Venezuela
U.S. Navy

U.S. Navy Destroyers, Submarine, Amphibious Ships Being Sent Toward Venezuela

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 21, 2025

An MH-53K does a test lift on a HU-25 Guardian slated to be delivered to nearby Tillamook Air Museum.P
U.S. Coast Guard

CH-53K’s Delivery Of HU-25 Coast Guard Jet Called Off After Damage During Test Flight

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Aug 20, 2025

The U.S. Navy's San Antonio class amphibious warfare ship USS New Orleans suffered a fire today while it was anchored off White Beach in Uruma City on the Japanese island of Okinawa.
U.S. Navy

Fire Aboard USS New Orleans Burned For 12 Hours Before Being Extinguished (Updated)

Howard Altman Howard Altman

Updated on Aug 20, 2025

For the first time since 1997, the Russian Navy’s nuclear-powered battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov is finally back in the water and moving under its own power, after years of repair work and modernization. The milestone comes after the 28,000-ton battlecruiser’s two nuclear reactors went back online earlier this year and the warship is now expected to become the future flagship of the Russian fleet, superseding sister vessel the Pyotr Veliky.
Russian Navy

Russia’s Upgraded Nuclear Battlecruiser Back At Sea After Nearly Three Decades

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 19, 2025

An apparently previously unknown tiltrotor aircraft has appeared in China and is already undergoing flight testing. While the program remains mysterious, it’s further evidence of growing Chinese interest in this class of aircraft. Although previous such Chinese projects have typically been pitched for civilian missions, tiltrotors have clear military applications as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) continues to expand its reach across the Indo-Pacific region.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

China’s First Crewed Tiltrotor Aircraft Is Flying

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 18, 2025

The U.K. Royal Air Force F-35B stealth jet that was forced to make an emergency diversion to Japan last week is still there, the U.K. Ministry of Defense has told TWZ.
Royal Navy

UK F-35B Still Stranded In Japan Is Awaiting Spare Parts

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Aug 14, 2025

Our Best Look At DARPA’s Defiant Uncrewed Surface Ship
U.S. Navy

Our Best Look At DARPA’s Defiant Uncrewed Surface Ship

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 13, 2025

A Chinese Coast Guard cutter chasing a Philippine Coast Guard cutter when it was rammed by a Chinese guided missile destroyer in the hotly contested Scarborough Shoal.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Chinese Destroyer Rips Bow Off Chinese Coast Guard Cutter During Intense Harassing Maneuvers

By Howard Altman

Updated on Aug 11, 2025

The U.S. is monitoring five Chinese icebreakers in the Arctic near Alaska..
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Unprecedented Chinese Icebreaker Deployment Off Alaska Being Monitored By U.S.

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 8, 2025

Northrop Grumman has released a new rendering of a possible configuration for its submission for the U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based combat jet. The program has long been even more secretive than the U.S. Air Force’s Next Generation Air Dominance jet, with only a handful of concept artworks previously released. In the meantime, the future of the Navy program is being increasingly questioned, with the service and Pentagon officials apparently at loggerheads about how best to proceed with it.
U.S. Navy

F/A-XX Next Generation Naval Fighter Concept Art Emerges From Northrop Grumman

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Aug 7, 2025

The latest addition to China’s growing family of Shenyang J-15 carrier-based fighter series, the J-15DT electronic warfare version, appears to have entered operational service. Crucially, this electronic attack Flanker is equipped for operations aboard catapult-equipped aircraft carriers like the Fujian, which recently began to host fixed-wing aircraft trials. Progress with the J-15DT points not only to China’s the scope of carrier aviation ambitions, but the growing focus on catapult assisted takeoff but arrested recovery (CATOBAR) operations, which offer many advantages.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

Our Best Look At China’s New J-15DT Carrier-Based Electronic Warfare Jet

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 5, 2025

An upgraded derivative of Japan's Mogami class frigate has won a competition to become the Royal Australian Navy's next major surface warship.
Royal Australian Navy

Japan’s Futuristic Mogami Frigate Will Be Australia’s Next Warship

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Aug 5, 2025

Massive $3.5B AIM-120 order placed.
U.S. Navy

Biggest AIM-120 Missile Order Ever Just Signed By Pentagon

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Aug 3, 2025

Signs are growing that China's People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is close to demonstrating its ability to launch and recover aircraft from its first catapult-equipped aircraft carrier, the Fujian, if it has not done so already.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

China Teases First Catapult Launches From Its New Carrier Fujian

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 1, 2025

The Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced a draft defense spending bill that would reverse the Pentagon's plan to freeze the U.S. Navy's F/A-XX next-generation carrier-based combat jet program.
U.S. Navy

Congress Moves To Save Gutted F/A-XX 6th Generation Naval Fighter Program

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 31, 2025

The Navy's new plans for a family of uncrewed surface vessels (USV), focused more on modular, containerized payloads than specific hull designs, are coming into sharper focus.
U.S. Navy

Navy Unmasks Its Vision For Fleet Of Uncrewed Modular Surface Attack Craft

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 31, 2025

The U.S. Navy is scrapping a P-8A Poseidon that ended up in Hawaii’s Kaneohe Bay back in 2023, marking the first total loss of one of these aircraft.
U.S. Navy

Navy Scraps P-8 Poseidon That Ran Off The Runway In Hawaii Two Years Ago

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 30, 2025

The epicenter of a huge 8.8-magnitude earthquake that occurred early this morning off the coast of Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, triggering tsunami waves across the Pacific, was only around 75 miles away from a cluster of key Russian naval bases.
Russian Navy

Questions Swirl Around Status Of Russian Nuclear Submarine Base After Historic Earthquake

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 30, 2025

Ground testing has begun on the production representative MQ-25 Stingray tanker drone for the U.S. Navy, which comes ahead of an expected first flight before the end of this year.
U.S. Navy

MQ-25 Stingray Carrier-Based Uncrewed Tanker Ground Testing Now Underway

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 29, 2025

Image of HMS TIRELESS at sea. HMS Tireless is over 25 years old but still playing a vital role in the front-line Fleet. HMS Tireless is the third of the seven Trafalgar-class submarines built at Barrow by Vickers. She was launched on 17 March 1984, so she has been plying her trade in the Royal Navy for more than a quarter of a century, but a lengthy overhaul of her propulsion, weapons systems and sensors put her in good shape for the gruelling programme of training and trials which followed.
Royal Navy

Royal Navy’s Last Nuclear Attack Submarine Of The Cold War-Era Heads Into Retirement

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 21, 2025

A new photo suggests that China’s Shenyang J-35, its next-generation carrier-based fighter, has now entered limited series production and is also in service with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). The photo joins a succession of imagery showing some of China’s latest military aircraft in great detail, including previous views of the same type of jet, although still in prototype form, as you can see in our previous coverage here.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

China’s J-35 Naval Stealth Fighter Looks Set For Service

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 19, 2025

The USS Connecticut, one of the U.S. Navy's prized Seawolf class nuclear attack submarines, is set to finally return to service late next year.
U.S. Navy

Submarine USS Connecticut Severely Damaged In Pacific Crash To Return To Service In 2026

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 15, 2025

Russian Navy's lone aircraft carrier, the Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov, is towed to the 35th squadron shipyard for maintenance and repair works in Murmansk, Russia on May 20, 2022. It is aimed to be completed the maintenance and repair works by the end of 2023.
Russian Navy

Russia May Finally Abandon Its Cursed Aircraft Carrier

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 11, 2025

An annual U.S. Navy wishlist sent to Congress reportedly includes $1.4 billion that would help keep its dreams of a next-generation carrier-based combat jet alive.
U.S. Navy

Navy Puts Gutted F/A-XX Next Generation Fighter Program In Wishlist To Congress: Reports

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 10, 2025

The Los Angeles class fast attack submarine USS Newport News made a historic visit to Iceland, marking the first time a nuclear-powered submarine made a visit to the island nation.
Russian Navy

U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Has Docked In Iceland For The First Time Ever

By Howard Altman

Updated on Jul 9, 2025

PLAN red sea laser incident.
People's Liberation Army Navy (China)

German Surveillance Plane Targeted By Chinese Warship’s Laser In Red Sea Points To Disturbing Pattern

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jul 8, 2025

The U.S. Navy has canceled a variant of its Razorback uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) designed to be launched and recovered via a standard submarine torpedo tube.
U.S. Navy

Navy Cancels Nuclear Submarine Torpedo Tube-Launched And Recovered Underwater Drone (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jul 8, 2025