Iran-backed Houthi militants in Yemen are claiming victory over the United States Navy. Sayyed Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, leader ...

The USS Wasp (CV-7), shaped by the limitations of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty, is often cited as the worst aircraft ...

US Marine amphibious assault vehicles approach the USS Wasp during a 2020 ship-to-shore exercise.Lance Cpl. Jacqueline ...

The contracts for maintenance and modernisation services are for USS Laboon destroyer and the USS Wasp assault ship.

BAE Systems has received $202 million in US Navy contracts to provide modernisation and maintenance services aboard the ...

During World War II, the United States Navy commissioned 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers, making it the most numerous class ...

WILMOT — There has always been a strong connection between the Mount Kearsarge area communities and the crews of her namesake ships. On November 9, eight crew members of the USS Kearsarge (LHD-3), a ...

"The award of these two contracts will provide extensive work for our Norfolk shipyard team" The company's Norfolk shipyard is currently concluding repair availabilities aboard Wasp-class ship USS ...

Its shipyard employees and their subcontractors will begin working on the guided missile destroyer USS Laboon (DDG 58) and the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) in February and March 2025, ...

The name selection was first announced by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro from the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Wasp during Fleet Week in New York City in May 2023. In a September news ...

The company's Norfolk shipyard is currently concluding repair availabilities aboard Wasp-class ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) and the destroyer USS Nitze (DDG 94). The shipyard began working aboard ...

USS Wasp in Norfolk Ship Repair in June 2021 (Credit: BAE Systems). Under the $114 million docking selected restricted availability (DSRA) contract for USS Laboon, BAE Systems will dry-dock the ...