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Construction contracts worth more than $6 billion were awarded Monday to shipbuilders General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls to build nine new DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
As warships get sleeker and stealthier, the head of the Italian Navy wants to buck the trend and plan a one-size-fits-all warship that will be cheap, roomy and dual-use, even with space for containers on deck.
Women won't be allowed in the infantry until at least 2015, according to a new plan outlining how the Marines will conform to the decision allowing female troops into ground combat units.
Special Operations Command may require special exemptions from the Pentagon's plan to open all military jobs to women by 2016, a top SOCOM general said Tuesday.
In a marked shift in patterns, three groups report that in 2012, for the first time, the number of maritime attacks off West Africa exceeded those made by pirates based in Somalia.
Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines.
The case of three Naval Academy football players accused of sexually assaulting a female midshipman while she was unconscious will proceed to an Article 32 hearing.
Chinese warships will continue to patrol waters where Beijing has territorial claims, a top general said Sunday, amid simmering rows with neighbors over the South China Sea and islands controlled by Japan.
The House overwhelmingly passed a sweeping, $638 billion defense bill on Friday that imposes new punishments on members of the armed services found guilty of rape or sexual assault.