This strange looking 355 foot-long ship is designed to partly capsize to carry out ocean research. The RP FLIP – short for Floating Instrument Platform – was created by the US Navy in 1962 and ...

The United States says China is the biggest ... while the Chinese navy keeps growing, the number of ships in the U.S. fleet is decreasing. VOA footage by Mary Cieslak, Adam Greenbaum, Phil Datcher.

While the United States ... in ship production and maintenance," in addition to "shifting defense priorities, last-minute design changes and cost overruns" that have caused Navy shipbuilding ...