Collecting too little | Nuclear power | ICE defense. Mercury News reader letters to the editor for Dec. 17, 2025.

Names for Navy ships traditionally have been chosen and announced by the Secretary of the Navy, under the direction of the President and in accordance with rules prescribed by Congress. Rules for ...

Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of ...

A Chinese naval hospital ship has reached the Caribbean—where the United States maintains a strong military presence amid tensions with Venezuela—following a long voyage from the South Pacific for a ...

The Navy paid Dutch shipbuilder Damen $3.3 million for the technical data package for the LST-100 tank landing ship that will serve as the Landing Ship Medium, Naval Sea Systems Command officials told ...

The Chinese naval hospital ship CNS Silk Road Ark arrives in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on December 4, 2025. Donald Trump issues new threat to Mexico Watch a camera capture its own demise while ...

The U.S. Navy has invested $448 million in the Shipbuilding Operating System, or Ship OS, to speed up the adoption of autonomy and artificial intelligence technologies across the maritime industrial ...

Off the coast of Shanghai, analysts caught another glimpse this week of the new warship that could forever change the history of naval warfare. "The Type 076 is significant because it brings together ...

USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) Underway during carrier airwing qualifications in the Northern Puerto Rican Operations Area, 10 December 1996. (Photo: PH2c Scott A. Moak, USN. via U.S. Navy from the ...

The U.S. Navy and AI software and data giant Palantir are now intertwined in a nearly half-billion-dollar investment to accelerate artificial intelligence and autonomy technologies to develop what ...

China’s navy is gradually moving closer to becoming a peer adversary for U.S.naval forces in the Pacific region, as evidenced by China’s growing number of modern aircraft carriers and amphibious ...

In the years between World War I and II, the U.S. military had ambitious and prescient ideas for war in the Pacific. By Nicholas Slayton Published Dec 1, 2025 10:44 AM EST The U.S. military is ...