PORT EVERGLADES — Patrick Price, a crew member on the USS Aquila, said he will miss gliding across the sea on the wings of one of six Navy hydrofoil ships to be mothballed next month. “There is ...

BREMERTON — It was the fastest hydrofoil in the world. Now, the Fresh-1 is corroding in obscurity behind a local warehouse. Boeing and J.M. Martinac Shipbuilding of Tacoma built the research vessel ...

It was never intended to be anything but a mismatch. On one side, you have South Florida drug smugglers, who often as not will slip into the Keys in a small pleasure boat powered by a couple of ...

A couple of years ago, we shared with you the story of the USS Plainview, a U.S. Navy hydrofoil ship that was powered by the same General Electric J79 turbojet engines you'd find in a jet fighter. If ...

Fighting China’s naval superiority in the South China Sea requires a rethinking of naval warfare from the perspective of a sort of guerilla warfare at sea. Budgetary constraints, combined with the ...

The Navy had better hope loose tweets don't sink ships. A video inadvertently shared by the U.S. Navy’s research and development arm this week revealed a previously unknown hydrofoil ship. The video, ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hydrofoils are "wings under water" that substantially increase the speed, maneuverability and stability of many boats, ships and other watercraft by lifting them above ...