After 35 years of service, the USS Philippine Sea has left Norfolk Naval Station on its final deployment. The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser will join a task force to deter illicit activity ...

China's claims in the South China Sea overlap with those of the Philippines, which is a U.S. security treaty ally.

See the ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the Navy's last conventionally powered aircraft carrier, which was in a class of its own.

Instead of preservation as a museum ship—which might allow certain foreign visitors to learn too much about existing aircraft ...