For the last ten years, the U.S. Navy has been fielding the world’s most advanced maritime patrol aircraft, a militarized version of the BoeingBA 737 jetliner that can fly farther and faster than the ...
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Put Up Or Shut Up Time For America’s Troubled New Aircraft Carrier
Old-school steam still works—the advantages of the USS Ford’s new electromagnetic flight deck … [+] machinery have yet to translate from PowerPoint to reality. U.S. Navy As the Pentagon’s ...
Hyping the China Threat Harms U.S. Security
No one who hasn’t been sleeping in a cave can have missed that U.S.-China relations are at a moment of dangerously high tensions. Just yesterday, Chinese President Xi Jin Ping stated that “Western cou...
Boeing Says Production Of Super Hornet Fighters Will Cease In 2025 As Company Pivots To New Opportunities
BoeingBA Defense & Space revealed on February 23 that production of its signature F/A-18 Super Hornet will likely end in 2025. Shutdown of the line near St. Louis might extend for two additional y...
Navy Seeks ‘Extreme’ Blue-Sky Ideas
The Serendipity Collective seems world-changing ideas free from normal constraints of even specific … [+] applications Serendipity Collective The Serendipity Collective is holding a highly unusu...
U.S. Navy Releases First Official Photos Of Chinese Spy Balloon In Atlantic Ocean
Sailors assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2 recover a high-altitude surveillance balloon … [+] off the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Feb. 5, 2023. DVIDS / U.S. Navy Photo by...
Navy Closes 4 Dry Docks, Putting Fleet, Budget And AUKUS At Risk
Puget Sound Naval Shipyard prepares old nuclear subs for recycling U.S. Navy In an unusual move, the U.S. Navy has publicly taken four West Coast dry docks offline over seismic concerns. Releasing a t...
America’s New Aircraft Carrier Struggled To Certify Pilots Before 2022 Deployment
Failures aboard the USS Ford complicated carrier qualifications for the “Gladiators” of Strike … [+] Fighter Squadron (VFA) 106. U.S. Navy If the fiscal year 2022 weapons system repo...
The Ukrainian Navy Is Ready To Rescue People Again As Ex-British Helicopters Arrive
A Royal Navy Sea King in 2013. Crown Copyright Just two months after the United Kingdom announced it would donate to Ukraine three ex-Royal Navy Westland Sea King helicopters, the first of the classic...
Navy SEAL—A Deserter Since 2019—Mysteriously Killed Fighting For Ukraine
Topline A former Navy SEAL who the U.S. military said deserted in March of 2019 died this week of injuries he suffered during a battle in eastern Ukraine, according to multiple reports, but the circum...
Like It Or Not, New Nuclear Reactors Are Coming To The U.S. Waterfront
The last nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser USS South Carolina (CGN-37) left U.S service in 1999 Corbis via Getty Images Over the next decade, a combination of strategic, economic, and environment...
The U.S. Navy Submarine Force Could Sink The Chinese Fleet And Save Taiwan. But At The Cost Of Half Its Boats.
USS ‘Seawolf.’ U.S. Navy photo If and when China attacks Taiwan, the U.S. Navy’s submarines could be the first forces to take shots at the Chinese invasion fleet. How many Chinese ships th...
Meeting In Washington, U.S. Surface Navy Mulls Lost Mojo
The Navy must realize the 1990s are long past. Getty Images As the U.S. Navy surface warfare community convenes in Washington for the Surface Navy Association’s 35th National Symposium, Secretary of t...
Want Peace? Kick Russia’s Navy Out Of The Black Sea—For Years
Russian Navy ship sails through the Bosphorus Strait AFP via Getty Images Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has spent the past few months previewing a comprehensive ten-point peace plan. But Z...
The Navy’s Plan To Modernize Military Sealift Makes Sense. Congress Needs To Keep It Funded.
The United States has a knack for getting involved in fights far from home. The vast majority of countries, if they go to war at all, do so close to home. Not America. Fortunately, most of the places ...
After A Near Disaster, USNS Comfort Returns Home And Navy Faces New Questions
America’s hospital ships are too big to operate away from a pier. Getty Images After a near-catastrophe off Haiti, where 19 sailors and civilians narrowly escaped with their lives, the Navy face...
The Story Behind The Real Top Gun
Cover art for TOPGUN’s Top 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit. Cover design by Edward A. Crawford. Cover photo by GETTY IMAGES. One of today’s most recognizable elite military institutions ...
Beat Army, Beat Navy, Play For Country
Navy quarterback Keenan Reynolds before the 2015 Army/Navy game at Lincoln Financial Field in … [+] Philadelphia. (Photo by Gavin Baker/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Corbis/Icon Sportswire v...
AUKUS Lets US Slow New Sub Deliveries, Fix Submarine Maintenance Problems
The U.S. should build subs for Australia U.S. Navy Congressman Rob Wittman, a Virginian eager to claim the top U.S. House spot as America’s next naval tastemaker, has dumped a bunch of cold water on t...
Palantir And Lockheed Martin Partner To Improve Navy Combat
Palantir Technologies Inc (NYSE: PLTR) and Lockheed Martin Corp (NYSE: LMT) collaborated to focus on delivering modern software to support Navy combat systems. They leveraged Lockheed Martin’s d...
Navy’s Fire Prevention Efforts Face Scrutiny
Ironically enough, after the Bonhomme Richard fire, the Navy used the then-CO of the Abraham Lincoln … [+] to promote fire awareness in the fleet. U.S. Navy The Navy’s ongoing effort to prevent ...
The Ukrainian Navy Still Has One Big Amphibious Ship. She’d Be Pretty Useful Right About Now.
‘Yuri Olefirenko’ in happier times, before the current war. Ukrainian navy photo There might be just one big ship left in the Ukrainian navy—the amphibious landing vessel Yuri Olefirenko. ...
The U.S. Navy Is About To Pack A Dozen Hypersonic Missiles Apiece Into Its New Stealth Destroyers
From left, the Chilean navy frigate CNS ‘Almirante Lynch.’ the Indian navy guided-missile frigate INS ‘Satpura’ and the ‘Zumwalt’-class destroyer USS ‘Michael...
The Navy’s “Analysis Paralysis” Sinks Chances For New National Shipyard
It’s time for action to save the Navy’s Attack Submarine Fleet U.S. Navy The Navy’s four “national shipyards” have been studied to death. After spending millions of the $21 billion Shipyar...
Videos Reveal Drone Kamikaze Boat Assault On Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
Perspective of USV approaching Russian Navy frigate Admiral Makarov on morning of October 29. Video capture from Ukrainian military video On the morning of October 29, warships of Russia’s Black Sea F...
Inside The Pentagon’s Wearable Tech Revolution
“Poor Bob,” says Alexander Gruentzig, pointing at a mannequin with a screwdriver handle sticking out of its right shoulder. The founder of the Boston-area startup Legionarius stabbed Bob to demonstrat...
Air Force, Navy Plans Look Totally Out Of Sync With China Threat Estimates
What’s wrong with this picture? Last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that China has accelerated its timetable for taking control of Taiwan, and the Navy’s top officer said that a milita...
Marine Corps War Plans Are Too Sino-Centric. What About The Other 90% Of The World?
China has long been known in standard Mandarin as Zongguo, the “middle country.” Judging from President Xi Jinping’s remarks to the Communist Party congress this weekend, the idea that China is the ce...
Stitch Fix And Old Navy Scale Back Own Label Inclusive-Size Ranges
Stitch Fix has joined Old Navy in scaling back its own label inclusive apparel. (Photographer: … [+] Tiffany Hagler-Geard/Bloomberg) © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP First Old Navy, now Stitch FixSFI...
USS Ford Shakedown Cruise Set To Shake Up The Navy, Russia And NATO
Battle-ready aircraft arrive on the USS Ford U.S. Navy After five years in commission, the supercarrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is finally deploying. The Navy, refreshingly open about the upcoming...
Navy Bribery Mastermind ‘Fat Leonard’ Arrested In Venezuela After Fleeing U.S. House Arrest
Topline A Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard”, who conned the U.S. military out of tens of millions of dollars and sat at the center of a sprawling corruption scheme, has been arrested in Vene...
Elections Cloud Future For Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro is out of favor and may soon be out of a job Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. After a year in office, U.S. Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro cuts a...