Laem Chabang, Thailand — The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East that kept the ship at sea for more than 250 days. Associated Press journalists watched the Lincoln, which is carrying about 5,000 service members, as it made its […]
The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold spent four days without power last month after a problem with its engineering, according to a spokesperson for the Navy’s 7th Fleet. Commander Matthew Comer, the spokesperson, said there were no injuries to the crew. The loss of power impacted plumbing, meals, toilets and air conditioning aboard the ship. The […]
34m ago Strait of Hormuz traffic falls to one-week low The number of vessels tracked transiting the Strait of Hormuz fell to a one-week low of eight, according to data reported by the Reuters news agency, as the ongoing conflict and stalemate kept shipping companies away from the vital waterway. Tuesday’s tally of eight […]
The U.S. military said it used one-way attack sea drones for the first time in combat Sunday in an attack on an Iranian naval port. In a statement shared Monday, U.S. Central Command said forces used multiple sea surface drones to strike a submarine and ship maintenance facility at the Bandar Abbas Naval Base on […]
China pulled off a clean recovery of a rocket booster during an actual trip to orbit on July 10, and it did so with a system no other country has tried before. The Long March 10B lifted off from the Hainan commercial space launch site carrying a satellite. Roughly six minutes after the upper stage […]