Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy is rapidly retiring its powerful Ticonderoga-class cruisers, sparking a debate over fleet size in the face of a rising China. -However, the program intended to ...

The US Navy wasted almost $2 billion on a failed effort to upgrade its cruisers, a watchdog report found. Four Ticonderoga-class vessels in the program were decommissioned before refits were completed ...

The guided-missile cruiser Chosin breaks away from the dry cargo ship Washington Chambers during an at-sea demonstration of the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method (TRAM) while underway in the Pacific ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy wasted nearly $2 billion rehabilitating four aging cruisers that were ultimately decommissioned, according to a scathing report by a federal watchdog. Since 2015, the Navy has ...

Navy cruisers — once a common sight in San Diego Bay — are disappearing fast. The cruiser’s role has largely been supplanted by fast and lethal Burke-class destroyers, leading the Navy to decommission ...

WASHINGTON — The Navy is extending the service life of three guided-missile cruisers that would have been retired in 2026, keeping the Ticonderoga-class ships in the fleet for another three years. The ...

The Navy never wanted to modernize its Ticonderoga guided-missile cruisers, preferring to spend the money on newer ships and technology. But lawmakers balked at losing hulls and missile tubes, and ...

The Navy for the first time reloaded a warship's vertical launching system missile cells at sea on Oct. 11, 2024. That system for rearming ships is shown here being demonstrated on land this summer.

The Navy says it is continuing to investigate what led to the USS Gettysburg firing at a Navy fighter in the Red Sea in the early hours of December 22. The Pentagon has released few details of the ...