Naval Warfare
The Olympic athletes Simon Biles and Katie Ledecky are sponsoring the Enterprise (CVN-80).
By Justin KatzThe Pentagon claimed to save $4 billion via its last aircraft carrier block buy. Can it do it again?
By Justin KatzThe USV Mariner is a direct result of the Strategic Capabilities Office’s Project Overlord program. Breaking Defense recently went inside the high-tech vessel.
By Justin KatzMoscow may need to build a new shipyard to meet its aspirations, including Russia’s own “Pacific pivot,” and sanctions are only making things more difficult, analysts told Breaking Defense.
By Justin KatzCEO and chairman David Goodrich told Breaking Defense the $100 million USD effort to build three prototype Extra Large Autonomous Undersea Vehicles (XL-AUVs) in three years is just the beginning of ambitious plans for the company.
By Colin ClarkThe service has known about the clutch failure phenomenon since 2010 and feels “that we have the appropriate procedures in place to handle this emergency procedure in the event that it occurs again,” a Marine Corps official said.
By Justin KatzThe laser is scheduled for at-sea tests on the destroyer Preble in fiscal 2023.
By Justin KatzAFSOC Commander Lt. Gen. Jim Slife ordered the safety standdown on Tuesday in the wake of two safety incidents that had occurred over the past six weeks, with a total of four such events occurring since 2017, AFSOC said.
By Valerie InsinnaReacting to the PLA’s previous large-scale exercise in the Taiwan straits in 1995-1996, the United States deployed two carrier battlegroups in response. The Chinese undoubtedly noted that this latest exercise, which included missile overflights of the island, led to a far more muted reaction, writes Dean Cheng.
By Dean ChengThe document also highlights issues with illegal fishing and seabed mapping, and calls environmental damage a “maritime security concern.”
By Justin Katz“We’re in a great place to get to that delivery to complete in ‘23,” the Missile Defense Agency director said.
By Andrew EversdenEarly results from a DC think tank’s wargame suggest the US would prevail in defending Taiwan from China, but at a heavy cost that would leave it ill-prepared for new threats from Russia or Iran.
By Justin Katz and Valerie Insinna
Adding Sweden and Finland to the alliance should serve as a turning point in how the Nordic nations plan out their defense strategies, writes analyst Robbin Laird.
By Robbin Laird