Suddenly and without much fanfare, the US Navy has deployed potentially the longest ... in its day – the era following the first Top Gun movie, in which Maverick and Goose flew and fought ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since. With the final retirement of the United States Navy's Iowa-class battleships in the ...

The USS Tripoli will replace the USS America as the US's forward-deployed big deck amphibious ship in the Indo-Pacific and it's bristling with F-35s.

In a surprise move last summer, the US Navy revealed a new and extremely powerful air-to-air ... fighters carried during the later decades of the Cold War. The original Top Gun movie dated from that ...

A US Navy destroyer used its deck gun to shoot down a Houthi drone in ... The Stockdale fended off multiple attacks in the fall while it was deployed to the Middle East. Over the past 15 months ...

They must also be qualified in all gun mounts aboard the ship ... "Training together allowed us to get to know one another and share techniques to make us better," she said.

The US Navy ... deployed amphibious flattop in the region. Both the Tripoli and the America operate as mini flattops, carrying fixed-wing and rotary aircraft flown by Marine and Navy aviators ...