What keeps a 1990s-era carrier fighter central to naval aviation in 2026? The answer is less about nostalgia than about engineering choices that let one aircraft keep absorbing new missions, new sensors, and new software while the Navy waits for its next-generation replacement. The F/A-18E/F Super Hornet was supposed...

What made USS Parche unusual was not that it was secret, but that it turned a fast attack submarine into a precision seabed intelligence tool. The boat began as a Sturgeon-class nuclear submarine, then evolved into a platform built for cable taps, diver deployment, and recovery work in waters...