The first 12 Constellation-class frigates will all be based out of Everett, Wash.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.GA-ASI’s MQ-9B: The right UAV for persistence, power, and performance
When assessing the state of the art of unmanned aerial systems, it’s critical to be very clear about what various aircraft can and can’t do – and could never do.
By using proven technology, the frigate program is trying to prevent the kind of high-tech teething troubles that bedeviled the Ford-class carrier and Littoral Combat Ships.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
“In practical terms, [the delay] has almost zero impact because the LCS has, for the most part, not been deployed,” much in the past 15 years said Bryan Clark, an analyst at the Hudson Institute.
By Paul McLeary
“I don’t mean to be dramatic,” said Navy CNO Adm. Mike Gilday, “but I feel like if the Navy loses its head, if we go off course and we take our eyes off those things we need to focus on, I think we may not be able to recover in this century.”
By Paul McLeary
“The contradictions and the flaws in this report are so blatant that I think it’s a pretty weak reed to lean on…given the fact that [the Trump administration] basically were just doing Obama’s shipbuilding plan up until this point,” says Rep. Joe Courtney
By Paul McLeary
It’s unclear if Robert O’Brien’s calls for hypersonic missiles on destroyers and building more frigates indicate he is inserting himself in Pentagon budget planning.
By Paul McLeary
Earlier this month, two senators — a Republican and Democrat — wrote to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calling on the administration to sanction Turkey after the S-400’s radar was turned on.
By Paul McLeary
A major overhaul is coming in software for missile warning
Space Systems Command’s FORGE program is the first, major missile-warning software modernization effort in 20 years.
“I don’t want to build a monstrosity. But I need deeper magazines on ships than I have right now,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said today.
By Paul McLeary
In his first substantive public comments about the fleet since assuming the job in May, Kenneth Braithwaite talks about carrier cuts, pumping up shipbuilding budget, and promises from Defense secretary Esper
By Paul McLeary
A video released by the Navy shows Harpoon ship-killing missiles launched by the Canadian frigate HMCS Regina and US destroyer USS Lake Erie tearing into the ship, along with a French-made Exocet missile fired by an offshore patrol vessel from Brunei.
By Paul McLeary
Existing amphibious ships might be the “Swiss Army Knife of the fleet,” but the Navy and Marines want an enemy who “jumps on it in the opening gambit…they’re gonna have the shock of their life.”
By Paul McLeary
“If we do come to blows with China, it’s gonna be very confused for the first 30 or 45 days, and then we must fight in a distributed fashion,” said Maj. Gen. Tracy King, Marine Corps’ director of Expeditionary Warfare
By Paul McLeary
The biggest defense manufacturers in the world warned the Pentagon and OMB of “significant job losses in pivotal states” if Congress doesn’t come up with stimulus money to cover unforeseen expenses.
By Paul McLeary
With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.
By Paul McLeary
