The U.S. Navy retired its last Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships this week in Bahrain, ending a legacy of over three ...

After decades of setbacks and early retirements, the Navy’s most ridiculed ship is finally doing its job: hunting mines and ...

Task Force 55/Destroyer Squadron 50 of the US 5th Fleet now handles mine countermeasures in the US Central Command's area.

The littoral combat ship USS Canberra arrived at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain last week, the first of four new vessels expected to replace aging mine countermeasures ships in the Middle East, ...

The Navy says the San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Canberra has arrived in Bahrain, where it is the first of four vessels in its class assigned to find and disable mines in the Persian Gulf ...

The future USS Canberra departs San Diego Harbor for an exercise in April. Navy photo A littoral combat ship bound for Naval Base San Diego will be commissioned in Australia, marking the first ...

The U.S. Navy's Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Canberra (LCS 30) arrived in Sydney, Australia, July 18, ahead of the ship’s ceremonial commissioning. USS Canberra entered Sydney Harbour ...

U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard and the Royal Australian Navy ceremonial guard line up for a photo op shortly before the commissioning ceremony for the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS ...

Satellite imagery captured on Monday by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2 satellites showed the Nimitz docked at ... and the Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Canberra, which is in the ...

A star-spangled kangaroo adorned an Independence-class littoral combat ship when it became the first U.S. Navy vessel to be commissioned in Australia. The USS Canberra was commissioned Saturday at the ...