The US Navy has deployed the USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001), one of its three Zumwalt-class stealth destroyers, to Japan in a clear strategic signal to China. -The deployment comes as the troubled ...

The Navy wants to buy 19 ships in fiscal year 2026, but delays, aging shipyards, and new threats may upset those plans.

Factors such as maintenance costs and system upgrades will determine the true value of the Abukuma-class vessels’ transfer, ...

The Philippine Navy says it will send experts to Japan next month to explore acquiring destroyer escorts set to be retired by ...

National Security Adviser Eduardo Año yesterday criticized China for what he described as its efforts to suppress the truth ...

Built by Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), the ship is named after the historic port city of Surat in Gujarat, ...

The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) is unlikely to be an alternative recipient of the Japanese warships in case the assets are ...

By Kenneth Christiane L. Basilio, Reporter CHINA’S aggressiveness in the Indo-Pacific is rooted in long-standing strategic ambitions independent of any US policy, and the region’s challenges stem from ...

Japan plans deep-sea rare earth mining to counter reliance on China ... of the six Abukuma-class destroyer escorts, which ...

A GAO report says federal programs meant to boost domestic shipbuilding are undercut by the absence of established goals to ...

Given the current state of the world, with turmoil in the Middle East and the ever-present saber rattling from China over ...

The deal marks a significant expansion of New Delhi’s strategic build-up in the Indian Ocean region against China.