Current practice in the United States Navy is for sailors to paint their ships. This is something sailors are not trained for and do not do often enough to gain much experience. The paint job is often ...

Who among the Navy’s best and brightest hasn’t at some point earlier in their enlisted career been forced to scrape rusting, dilapidated paint from the various corners of the service’s ageing fleet of ...

A pigment package designed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) to slow discoloration of the exterior coating on surface ships has started to make its way into the fleet and is producing early, ...

You’ve always been told military gray is just for camouflaging the ship—think again. We dive into the secret science of maritime paint that changes everything you know about naval warfare and Arctic ...

Emissions from copper-based antifouling paints are a well-known environmental problem. As much as 40 percent of copper inputs to the Baltic Sea come from antifouling paints on ships and leisure boats.