Advanced firepower will continue to play a critical role at sea as Sailors face advanced threats ...

Sailors with USS Stockdale (DDG-106) used the destroyer’s five-inch gun to shoot down a Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicle, the ...

Vice Adm. Daniel Cheever, commander of Naval Air Forces, is confident the Navy will fly its MQ-25s this year and integrate ...

The gun was first deployed in 1971 as the Mk 45 Mod 0, and has been updated in the more than five decades since.

The US Navy has contracted BAE Systems to upgrade Mk 45 5-inch naval gun systems, including the overhaul of existing systems, ...

The company will extend the barrel of the Mk 45, strengthen the gun mounts and incorporate a fully digital control system.

The US Navy has awarded BAE Systems over $70 million to upgrade Mk 45 five inch naval gun systems and ancillary equipment.

On 30th September, BAE Systems received a $23.5 million modification to a $47 million contract awarded at the end of July, bringing the total value to over $70 million. Under the contract, BAE Systems ...

Many acts of heroism occurred during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, including a remarkable fight by the destroyer escort Samuel B ...

On the evening of May 4, 1945, the officers and crew of the salvage and submarine rescue vessel USS Penguin ASR-12 were celebrating the apparent end of WWII in the Atlantic theater. Buoyed by the ...

Young was the only contractor named throughout the story. open image in gallery CNN was sued by US Navy veteran Zachary Young for defamation over a report on ‘black market’ Afghanistan ...

A Florida jury found CNN liable for $5 million on Friday in a defamation trial against U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, who sued the network after he was described as an “illegal profiteer” during a ...