A veteran of that event is now up for sale on Bring a Trailer (which, like Car and Driver, is part of Hearst Autos). This ...

The USS Torsk, a historic submarine that's now a museum in Baltimore, was the last US Navy submarine to sink an enemy ship ...

A mutated Frankenstein’s monster grows to kaiju size in this wild 1965 Japanese cult film, blending sci-fi horror, atomic ...

A Japanese destroyer will test-fire powerful Tomahawk cruise missiles off Southern California this summer after being taught how to do so in recent months by Navy personnel in San Diego. The exercise ...

The sinking of an Iranian warship off the coast of Sri Lanka this week is something a US Navy submarine hasn’t done in more than 80 years and is another indication that Washington’s war with Tehran is ...

Robert Hunt was a torpedoman on the USS Tambor. He ran 12 consecutive war patrols in the Pacific and never fully shook what those missions felt like. "I was just sure I was going to die," he recalled ...

During World War II, Japan’s fleet was large and qualitatively peerless, but unsupported by a broader defense-industrial base. The United States finds itself in the same position today. Talk about an ...

U.S. sailors recently joined American and Japanese civilian employees to mark Sasebo Naval Base’s 80th anniversary, gathering to form the number 80 for a commemorative photo at the installation in ...

Leyte Gulf was more than a single battle it was the moment the Imperial Japanese Navy ceased to be an effective fighting force. Facing overwhelming American industrial power and air superiority, ...

Japan is entering a consequential phase in its national security planning. As Tokyo moves toward an early revision of its three core security documents – the National Security Strategy, National ...

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial Japanese Navy’s Yamato. Escorted by the light cruiser Yahagi and eight ...

The Imperial Japanese Navy launched hundreds of fighters and bombers at Pearl Harbor in an effort to paralyze the main U.S. naval base for the Pacific Fleet near Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941.