The quest to be interchangeable
The U.S. Navy and its closest allies and partners continue their quest to become interchangeable — a step up from previous calls to be...
Hypersonic weapons: report to Congress
A report to members and committees of the US Congress has outlined options for hypersonic weapons.
The report summary follows:
The United States has actively pursued...
Undersea drone program dead in the water
The US Navy’s Snakehead program is looking dead in the water — again. Congressional appropriators in the fiscal 2023 defense spending bill backed the service’s...
Palau: US building over-horizon radar
On December 28, the Department of Defense announced the award of an $118 million contract to build a special kind of radar installation in...
US Navy buys two Valkyrie drones
The US Navy is buying two stealth unmanned aerial systems – originally developed for the Air Force – that could operate with a manned...
Extraordinary role of dolphins and sea lions
By Gidget Fuentes*
Since 1959, the US Navy has trained a small force of bottlenose dolphins and sea lions to recover lost equipment, intercept intruders...
Ghost Shark: unmanned and under water
Anduril Industries and the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) announced that the Extra Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (XLUUV) will be named "Ghost Shark".
The company previously...
UK Sea Kings headed to Ukraine
The British Ministry of Defence has announced it will send helicopters to Ukraine for the first time since the war began, military.com reports.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said it will...
Royal Navy warships to receive Harpoon replacement from 2023
The Royal Navy will replace the venerable Harpoon anti-ship missile with the Norwegian Naval Strike Missile. The new missile has a range of more...
US Navy analysis confirms Iranian link to drone attack
A US Navy lab in Bahrain has confirmed Iran’s connection to a Nov. 15 aerial drone attack on the Israeli-owned and Liberian-flagged tanker transiting...