Over the next few years the company will build two huge new additions to its Mobile shipyard and hire about 2,000 people to ...
The aft flight deck of a modular LCS It was this line of thinking that lead the US Navy to embark on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program in the early 2000s. These ships would be more nimble ...
The U.S. Navy's shipbuilding program is woefully inadequate to cope with surging Chinese warship construction. The U.S. needs ...
Landing/Attack Craft: 4 LCUs or 2 LCUs and 1 LCAC. Amphibious Assault Ships are the U.S. Navy’s largest of all amphibious warfare ships. They resemble a small aircraft carrier and are capable of ...
The Navy's fierce and ongoing battle to stop Iran-backed Houthi attacks in the Red Sea began with the USS Carney a year ago, ...
Capt. Dan Lannamann, the former commanding officer of Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center in Norfolk, Virginia, is now ...
To accomplish this mission the Continental Congress purchased, converted, and constructed a fleet of small ships -- frigates, brigs, sloops, and schooners. These navy ships sailed independently or ...
New Zealand’s defense minister issued stinging rebukes of what she said were “vile” and “misogynistic” online remarks by “armchair admirals” about the woman captain of a navy ship ...
For several years it remained committed to a goal of 355 active manned ships that it outlined in 2016. In 2020, the Navy issued a requirement for a more distributed fleet architecture that would ...
But that alone is not enough. China’s Bohai Shipyard boasts an annual capacity exceeding the total number of ships our Navy has launched since 2014. In addition, China is rapidly expanding its ...
New Zealand’s Judith Collins rebuked the online remarks by “armchair admirals” about the captain of a navy ship that ran aground and caught fire. WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand’s ...
It is hardly a secret that the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding program is in the doldrums. Year after year, regardless of the ...