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...
Ukraine: lessons from Cuban missile crisis
By LtCol Brent Stricker*
“It would be well for your government to consider that having your ships and ours, your aircraft and ours, in such...
Swedish Navy and NATO
With its significant geopolitical, strategic and military changes stemming from Russia’s war against Ukraine, 2022 has the potential to go down in history as...
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...
Mine-clearing role for US ships
The Navy could deploy the aluminum hull, Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship to the Middle East as part of a future mine-countermeasures force in U.S....
Exasperation over naval non-delivery
Exasperation is growing over the U.S Navy’s inability to get missiles and weapons delivered fast enough to keep its own magazines full, let alone...
Pakistan praises Chinese naval advances
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy is on its way to becoming one of the finest and leading navies after showing remarkable progress...
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...
Plug and play idea for carrier strike group
U.S. Fleet Forces is rethinking how to deploy carrier strike groups by changing how it would train and maintain its guided-missile destroyers, commander Adm....
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...