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GAO Audit Digs Up Delays and Overruns in Navy's Hypersonic Missile Program

Published Jul 21, 2026 9:39 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Navy's three Zumwalt-class destroyers have had a hard time finding a place in the fleet, and are now two years behind schedule...

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Joint Venture Brings Ukraine's Magura Attack USVs to the United States

Published Jul 21, 2026 7:33 PM by The Maritime Executive

Following the first combat success of an American-operated drone boat earlier this month, the pioneering Ukrainian USV maker Uforc...

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Rubio to Meet With China's Foreign Minister After S. China Sea Clash

Published Jul 21, 2026 2:36 PM by The Maritime Executive

Shortly after a violent clash between Chinese and Philippine forces at Second Thomas Shoal, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio ha...

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Russian Frigate Conducts Live-Fire Exercise Off UK Coast as Royal Navy Watc

Published Jul 20, 2026 6:58 PM by The Maritime Executive

The Russian frigate Neutrashimy, which has just taken up position, it appears, in the English Channel, caused a stir on Monday, Ju...

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Video: 130-Foot Yacht Goes Aground Off Woods Hole

Published Jul 20, 2026 6:50 PM by The Maritime Executive

Last Friday, a private yacht with passengers aboard went aground on an obstruction in the Woods Hole Passage, prompting a large-sc...

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China Coast Guardsman Hits Philippine Sailor in the Head in Latest Clash

Published Jul 20, 2026 3:07 PM by The Maritime Executive

A standoff between Philippine and Chinese forces at the Philippine Navy's Second Thomas Shoal outpost ended in injury for one Fili...

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France Pulls Back Carrier and Reshuffles Arabian Sea Flotilla

Published Jul 20, 2026 10:01 AM by The Maritime Executive

France is changing its naval deployments in the Middle East. The demise of the Coalition of the Willing naval task force, which wa...

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Geopolitical Disruption Reduces Cargo Volume at Port of Antwerp

Published Jul 20, 2026 4:30 AM by The Maritime Executive

The Port of Antwerp-Bruges is feeling the impact of a myriad of domestic and global challenges after cargo throughput plunged duri...

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Multiple Crewmembers Killed in Russian Strike on Turkish Bulker

Published Jul 19, 2026 11:03 PM by The Maritime Executive

Over the weekend, Russian forces struck a Turkish-owned bulker off the coast of Odesa, killing six crewmembers and leaving four mi...

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Autonomous Technology Makes it Possible to be a Mariner - On Land

Published Jul 19, 2026 8:59 PM by Gemini News

[By Henriette Louise Krogness] Uncrewed vessels that navigate themselves and notify operators when they need support from shore-ba...

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