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 ...
Stop Fighting And Build The Light Amphibious Warship
LAWs may change the shape and size of America’s amphibious assault fleet Getty Images If the U.S. Navy fights China half as hard as it is currently fighting the U.S. Marine Corps over the Light ...
The Marine Corps’ Light Amphibious Warship Seems To Be Faltering. Here Is A Novel Solution.
When the Pentagon revised its defense strategy to focus on China in 2018, no military service moved faster than the Marine Corps to begin making changes. Incoming Commandant General David Berger decla...
The United States Could Defend Taiwan—At The Cost Of A Lot Of Submarines
USS ‘Springfield’ moors at Naval Base Guam. U.S. Navy photo If and when China attacks Taiwan, the U.S. Navy’s submarines could be the first defenders to take shots at the Chinese invasion ...
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 U.S. Fleet Could Lose Four Aircraft Carriers Defending Taiwan
USS ‘Ronald Reagan.’ U.S. Navy photo The U.S. Navy’s fleet of 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers fared poorly in a series of war games, simulating a Chinese invasion of Taiwan in 2026, t...
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...
How One U.S. Munition Could Decide Taiwan’s Fate
A USAF B-1 bomber drops a JASSM-ER missile during testing. U.S. Air Force photo A Chinese attack on Taiwan could trigger a war drawing involving two million Chinese troops, half a million Taiwanese tr...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
What Replaces the Navy’s Critical AQM-37 Aerial Target?
The Navy prepares to launch the final AQM-37 targets Sept. 22 in support of the U.S. Army’s … [+] Integrated Fires Mission Command operations at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. U.S. Army ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Internecine Knife Fights Are Killing The U.S. Navy And American Maritime
American maritime influencers engage on everything but strengthening the maritime. Getty Images Lobbying for a larger U.S. Navy, Coast Guard and merchant marine is a big business, attracting millions ...
How Unmanned Warships Might Provide A New Paradigm For Naval Shipbuilding
The U.S. Navy is operating or developing nearly a dozen different unmanned sea vehicles for use in maritime security operations. Some of the vehicles operate on the ocean’s surface, and others beneath...
How To Slash The Time And Money Needed To Build Warships—Without Cutting Capabilities
The federal fiscal year beginning October 1 marks an unfortunate anniversary for the U.S. Navy. It will be the 20th consecutive year that the number of warships in the U.S. fleet is fewer than 300. Vi...
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...
Fed Up, Congress Considers Giving Coast Guard The Navy’s Small Ship Funding
The U.S. Coast Guard’s smallest cutters are forward deployed and ranging into strategic waters. MediaNews Group via Getty Images As the U.S. Navy continues a long, forty-year trend of moving awa...
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...
Let The Marine Corps Build The New Light Amphibious Warship
It’s time to supplement the Navy’s big amphibious fleet with light amphibious warships Getty Images The Pentagon’s proposed 2023 naval budget was a rude shock for America’s amphibious assa...