Even in the best of times, utilitarian U.S. Navy tugs, patrol vessels and miscellaneous small service craft get little respect. Today, with funds short and America’s Navy now run and ruled by a pair ...

The Chinese Navy is accelerating its naval modernization efforts with the addition of a new “utility landing craft” capable of transporting armed vehicles, troops, and supplies to support amphibious ...

The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) recently conducted landing drills featuring a new type of utility landing craft in the East China Sea, with observers saying on Thursday that this kind of ...

The French shipyard Socarenam has received an order from the General Directorate of Armament (DGA) for the supply of a maritime and port security craft (VSMP) to the Maritime Gendarmerie and a ...