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The Navy named its next warship after this city

Designed to replace aging Whidbey Island-class vessels, the Navy wants to buy 13 of these new San Antonio-class variants.

By Navy Times staff

3 years ago

As tensions rise, could Iran mistake airliners for warplanes?

Iraqi officials said ExxonMobil Corp. began evacuating staff from Basra, and Bahrain ordered its citizens out of Iraq and Iran over "the recent escalations and threats."

By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press

4 years ago

Shipwreck mystery: What happened to this US warship that sank in WWI?

Scientists scour the site to find what could have sunk the vessel in just 20 minutes.

4 years ago

Navy's captured flags, hidden nearly 100 years, rediscovered

The curator of the U.S. Naval Academy Museum wasn’t exactly sure what would be found: records indicated five display boxes long used to exhibit captured British flags from the War of 1812 actually concealed more banners underneath.

5 years ago

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