'A centralised control computer for robots on land, air or sea' sounds suspiciously like the Terminator-wiki description of Skynet. But actually, it's just the SparkNotes version of the US Navy's latest test project, the Common Control System, which is going to kill us all. Read More >>

I love this photo of the USS John C. Stennis, a nuclear supercarrier. It looks like a tiny model thanks to the F-18's exhaust fumes, which distort the air above part of the deck and turns the image into a bit of a tilt-shift photo. Read More >>

This image is so unreal that it feels like a sci-fi illustration more than a photo. It looks like part of a spaceship—perhaps some structure from an Imperial Star Destroyer—instead of the 1,000-ton deckhouse of the United States' new destroyer USS Zumwalt. Read More >>

For decades, the US Navy has had a crack team of highly intelligent (and very cute) dolphins swimming around, trained to find naval mines before they blow up something big and expensive. Now, though, their time has come: like a naval Batman at the end of a fishy version of The Dark Knight, they're no longer needed. Read More >>

Beautiful timelapses and awesome angles shot with GoPros inside F-18 cockpits. That's what you will find in this video filmed by the men and women of the US Navy. I'm amazed at the skill of these people. It starts slow, but keep watching and it soon gets awesome. Worth of a Top Gun reboot. Read More >>

This photo of aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is incredible—and it looks like a lot of fun too. I imagine the helmsman pushing the rudder and whispering "wowwheeeee!" Read More >>

The US Navy just got a new spy plane. Its name is MQ-4C Triton, and it has been created by Northrop Grumman for "Maritime Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance data collection and dissemination capability to the Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Force." Read More >>

If you think Back To the Future 2 was the first time the world was introduced to the concept of hoverboards, think again. As far back as 1955, the US Navy was demonstrating its own hoverboard concept, but unfortunately it wasn't as slick as Hollywood had envisioned them to be. Read More >>

The US Navy has published photos of the aftermath of the F/A-18D crash. They clearly show the damage on the apartments that got hit, along with the foam-covered grounds. It's amazing how lucky the residents and the pilots were. Read More >>

There aren’t many more worthy professions for robotics than something as hazardous as fire fighting, so the US Navy is putting its new robotic platform to good use. Octavia will seek out fires and put them out, interpreting the jumbled, panicked speech of us puny humans to figure out where it is, and its bloody creepy while it does it too. Read More >>

This is a fascinating video. It shows how the US Navy destroys its old ships, one scrap of metal at a time, recycling every component to make new parts. The ship is the USS Savannah, a Wichita-class tanker almost as long as two American football fields and ten floors high. Read More >>

This video has it all: timelapses, dramatic photography and tons of aircraft porn. It's a typical day on the USS Carl Vinson, the third of the US Navy's Nimitz-class nuclear supercarriers. It's also the place where they took Osama Bin Laden's body before dumping him at sea. Read More >>

The US Navy's fleet of heavily-armed SSGN subs will run through their nuclear fuel supplies by 2026. At that point, they must be replaced at a cost of $8 billion (£5 billion) apiece. Problem is, $8 billion is roughly half of the US Navy's annual ship production budget. So what's the Navy to do? Read More >>