Never was aeronautical engineering more significant than in the six years of the second world war. A deadly technological ...

The HMNZS Aotearoa carried out “surveillance and deterrence” activities on China’s doorstep, including a provocative passage ...

Scuttling is when a ship's crew intentionally sinks a ship themselves, and it happened a lot during WWII to ensure ships didn ...

A British naval supply ship with an on-board helicopter was deployed to track the stealthy Kilo-class submarine Krasnodar, ...

Modern tools and good old-fashioned digging revealed royal tombs, World War II shipwrecks, and the oldest Egyptian genome ...

Adolf Hitler speaks at the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany, 1939. (Central Press/Hulton Archive/) When news of the Japanese ...

Could battleships return? We explain how missiles, cost, and naval strategy killed the concept and why it isn't likely ...

The U.K. plans to transform the Royal Navy’s submarine-hunting capabilities with a hybrid naval force meant to counter ...

On December 31st, 1942, six British destroyers charged directly at a German heavy cruiser and pocket battleship in the Arctic ...

With fifth-generation submarines on the horizon, their technology has come a long way. Ultra-advanced subs of today use ...

Although officials did not explain why the Duke-class warship wasn’t brought home for decommissioning, there is speculation that her age may have played a role. The longest-serving warship in Royal ...

On April 5th, 1942, two Royal Navy heavy cruisers, hms Cornwall and Dorsetshire, were patrolling the Indian Ocean west of ...