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Something Navy’s Arielle Charnas Launches Collaboration With Superga; Mommy And Me Styles
Ruby, Esme and Arielle Charnas wearing the new Superga sneakers. Courtesy of Something Navy Arielle Charnas, a.k.a. Something Navy, has a new collaboration under her size 8 belt: Something Navy X Supe...
Russian Navy Crews Are Under Orders To Avoid The Ukrainian Coast
‘Moskva’ burns on April 13, 2022. Photo via social media The commanders of the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet are scared to send their surviving surface warships beyond sight of the Crimea...
Battleships Are Back! Navy Abruptly Boosts DDG/CG Building Targets For 2045
A notional Navy rendering of DDG(X), America’s future super-sized surface combatant. U.S. Navy Battleships are back! In little more than five months, the shape of America’s future Navy fleet cha...
Scratch One Super Hornet – It Fell Off a Navy Aircraft Carrier
Sailors conduct a high-powered turn on an F/A-18E Super Hornet, from the “Kestrels” of Strike … [+] Fighter Squadron (VFA) 137, on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Ni...
Navy’s Robotic Orca Submarine Could Be A Gamechanger In The Pacific
The U.S. Navy has embarked on a campaign to assimilate unmanned warships into its fleet of combat vessels. The unmanned warships come with diverse forms and features, but the most promising at present...
Navy Releases Grim USS Connecticut (SSN 22) Investigation; DoD Must Demand Accountability
The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut had a long record of trouble before running … [+] aground in October 2021 ASSOCIATED PRESS A heavily redacted Command Investigation into t...
U.S. Navy climate plan calls to cut emissions, electrify vehicle fleet
U.S. Navy sailors operate onboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) in the Adriatic Sea, off Split, Croatia February 14, 2022. Milan Sabic | Reuters The U.S. Navy on Tuesd...
Drone Ships Posed To Play Important Role In Russia-Ukraine War
The Russia-Ukraine war has featured more drone technology than any previous war. Indeed, part of Ukraine’s initial success is due to their effective usage of the Bayraktar TB2 aerial drones. Meanwhile...
One Of The Most Dangerous Jobs In The Russian Navy
A ‘Serna’ landing craft maneuvers to avoid an apparent MAM missile on May 12, 2022. Maxar photo The Russian Black Sea Fleet began the wider war with Ukraine in late February with maybe 11 ...
The Russian Navy Keeps Exposing Its Vulnerable Support Ships To Ukrainian Attack
The Russian rescue ship ‘Vsevolod Bobrov.’ Russian navy photo When a Ukrainian navy anti-ship battery put two Neptune anti-ship missiles into the side of the Russian navy cruiser Moskva on...
A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea
‘Admiral Makarov’ before the war. Photo via Wikimedia Commons H.I. Sutton, an independent journalist focusing on naval warfare, has spotted more than a dozen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...
America’s New QUICKSINK Bomb Targets China’s Vast Low-Tech Navy
Screenshot from a live test of a “Quicksink” bomb Air Force Research Laboratory After a stunning live-fire demonstration in the Gulf of Mexico, America’s new “QUICKSINK” bomb, a fast-movin...
New Scandal Reveals Pattern Of U.S. Navy Disregard For Junior Sailors
Enlisted personnel are the heart of the Navy Getty Images In the space of three months, the U.S. Navy has experienced two major scandals concerning the Service’s poor treatment of junior sailors. Comp...
How Used Aircraft Parts Can Help DoD Improve Mission Readiness
By Randy Starr and Dennis Santare Randy Starr, an ex-Army commander of an airborne rapid deployment force, and Dennis Santare, a former Marine Corps pilot, are partners in the firm’s aerospace and def...
The Russians Appear To Be Sending A Deep-Diving Submersible To The Wreck Of The Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Kommuna’ and her AS-28 submersible. Russian navy photo The Russian navy reportedly is trying to salvage sensitive materials from the wreck of the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, which sank...
Old Navy CEO to exit as parent company Gap cuts sales guidance
An employee hands a customer a shopping bag at an Old Navy Inc. store in San Francisco. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Gap Inc. announced Thursday that the CEO of its Old Navy division, ...
ZapBatt Intros Super Fast-Charging, Long-Life E-Bike Battery
ZapBatt long-life, fast-charging battery for e-bikes can be charged in 20 minutes and last 20 years. … [+] ZapBatt ZapBatt co-founder and CEO Charlie Welch smiles as he says it’s like goin...
A Russian Attack On Odessa Could Be Naval Suicide
‘Saratov’ burns in Berdyansk. YouTube capture Russia had a chance to cut off Ukraine from the sea. It blew it. Now it’s highly likely, however and whenever the war ends, that Ukraine still...
Supreme Court Rules Navy Can Sideline Unvaccinated SEALs
Topline The Supreme Court on Friday stayed a lower court ruling that prevented the Navy from limiting the assignments of SEALs who have refused to be vaccinated against Covid-19 on religious grounds, ...
Russian Landing Ship Destroyed While Docked In Berdyansk Port, Ukrainian Navy Claims
Topline A Russian Navy amphibious landing ship was destroyed while docked in the Russian-occupied port of Berdyansk in southern Ukraine on Thursday, the Ukrainian navy said hours after photos emerged ...
Key Allies Buy New F-35s As Pentagon Cuts Program
Time For Congress to debate the F-35 value proposition U.S. Department of Defense As the Cold War faded, the U.S. took a big gamble that the nation would need the advanced F-35 Lightning II fighter-bo...
Putin’s Dream Of New, Globe-Spanning Russian Navy Turns On Ukraine Invasion
Russia’s Navy modernization has been halted by engine problems. Getty Images It is easy to dismiss Vladimir Putin’s effort to retake Ukraine as an abstract effort to reconstitute the Soviet Unio...
German Navy Chief Resigns After Saying Ukraine Won’t Get Crimea Back And Putin ‘Probably’ Deserves Respect
Topline Germany’s top naval officer stepped down Saturday following comments he made about Russia, including a call to show respect to Russian President Vladimir Putin and claiming Ukraine would never...
Opinion: ‘Better than a 401(k)’? Scammer blew through more than $5 million of investors’ money earmarked for retirement
According to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Marco “Sully” Perez of Midland, Texas, used to tell his clients that his investment scheme was better than a 401(k). Now the U.S. District Court in...
Judge Rules In Favor Of Navy SEALs Seeking Religious Exemptions From Covid Vaccine
Topline A federal judge in Texas on Monday ruled in favor of 35 U.S. Navy SEALs who sued the Biden Administration over the military’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate, marking the first major successful chall...