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Date: January 22, 2026 Source: Aljazeera US president says ‘big force going towards Iran’, but he would ‘rather not see anything happen’ as tension with Tehran ratchets up. The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln sails in the Strait of Hormuz in 2019, with the air-defence destroyer HMS Defender and the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut behind [File: Zachary Pearson/US Navy via AFP] United States President Donald Trump said a US naval “armada” was heading towards the Gu

Date: January 19, 2026 Source: Breaking Defense A Navy official said he expects by 2045 for nearly half of all naval surface vessels to be unmanned. SAN DIEGO (May 13, 2022) – The medium-displacement unmanned surface vessel Sea Hunter sits pierside at Naval Base San Diego, during the Unmanned Surface Vessel Division (USDIV) One Establishment ceremony. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin C. Leitner) SURFACE NAVY 2026 — After rounds of prototypin

Date: January 7, 2026 Source: Daily Mail US and Russian Navy about to cross paths over the Bella-1 tanker Russia has dispatched navy assets to protect a sanctioned oil tanker as it crosses the Atlantic, amid mounting threats from the US to seize the vessel. The move comes after US forces were said to be preparing to board the ship, which has a long history of transporting Venezuelan crude oil and was last believed to be sailing between Scotland and Iceland. According to CBS