As beautifully as the SBD performed during WWII, its critics point out that it was already obsolescent by the start of the war, and the Navy brass concurred; the Helldiver completely supplanted the ...

Kelly was a gunner on a Navy Helldiver during World War II. To his left is a pillow, one of several depicting his grandson, Niles Police Sgt. Joseph Lazo, killed by a drunken driver in Texas in 2020.

Since his childhood, Randy Malmstrom has had a passion for aviation history and historic military aircraft in particular. He has a particular penchant for documenting specific airframes with a ...

When thinking of the Pacific Theater, most will likely think of the Navy and its fighter aircraft, like the Douglas SBD Dauntless divebomber, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, North American P-51 Mustang, and ...

It’s another victory for the right side of history, as the Super Earth Armed Forces leadership in “Helldivers 2” would say: The immensely popular video game is getting a real-world ...

Helldivers 2 is being turned into a movie. A film basically already exists under the name of Starship Troopers, but Sony is planning to bring Arrowhead’s HD2 to the big screen sometime in the ...

The Navy wants to buy its first next-generation guided missile destroyer by 2032, but first there are there are some details that need to be hammered out for replacing the trusty Arleigh Burke ...

President Joe Biden announced Monday that two future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carriers would be named after former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. "Each knows firsthand the ...

Days after his death, the Navy issued a statement saying, "Mullen was not actively training at the time of his death.” Over a year later, in May 2023, the Navy released the investigation into ...

“We have failed leadership and under a command that killed a man unnecessarily." The mother of a Navy SEAL recruit who died after completing "hell week" training has told ABC News that the cases ...

Navy officials on Tuesday began to open up about the lessons they are learning from the months of sustained combat in the Red Sea against Houthi forces in Yemen, including how the service shot ...