Overview
- USS Higgins, which lost shipwide power Tuesday during Indo-Pacific operations, regained propulsion after crews restored systems and no injuries were reported.
- A U.S. defense official said the outage lasted several hours, leaving radars and combat systems offline until power returned.
- The Navy labeled the problem an engineering casualty in the ship’s electrical distribution system and opened an investigation.
- Officials did not disclose the destroyer’s exact position within the region at the time of the failure.
- The episode follows spring fires on USS Zumwalt, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, and USS Gerald R. Ford, focusing attention on ship safety and maintenance across the fleet.