Fincantieri Marinette Marine

Future Frigate Still in the Future

The future Constellation (FFG-62), first of the Navy’s new frigate class, celebrated its keel-laying in a formal ceremony on 12 April 2024. That’s the good news.

Brian O’Rourke
June 2024
U.S. Marine Corps ACVs from Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, return to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) during Exercise Balikatan 2024.

Balikatan 2024

The exercise—whose name comes from the Tagalog word for shoulder-to-shoulder—ran from 22 April to 10 May.

May 2024
container ship

Unpacking Merchant Shipping

Commercial ships have continually evolved and expanded to enable more efficient transport.

Joe Greco
February 2024
NTK Oct23 Hero

Six Moments, Plus One

The Naval Institute’s periodicals have had outsized effects on numerous occasions. Here are six noteworthy moments for Proceedings and one for sister publication Naval History.

October 2023
C-27J Spartan

Coast Guard Fixed-wing Aviation

Helicopters are the first thing most people associate with Coast Guard aviation—but the service’s lesser-known fixed-wing aircraft have important roles, too.

Brian O'Rourke
July 2023