In the last year Japan has moved from making its first appearance at an international air show, the 2024 Singapore event, to providing radars to the Philippines and engaging in a full court press to sell the Mogami frigate to Australia.
The decision follows a similar one last year to extend the service life of the Arleigh Burke (DDG-51).
The U.S. Army’s MAPS Gen II program of record for assured PNT provides an authoritative and reliable source of truth for combat vehicles in a highly contested battlespace.
Capt. Tim Moore, whose office is charged with overseeing the modernization, said the Navy plans to use a "crawl phase" to install most of the upgrades and test them before working on the rest of the destroyer fleet.
The Democrats’ draft bill trims military personnel and R&D to add money for procurement.
The long-awaited jammer, a key defense against anti-ship missiles, will now enter land-based testing at Wallops Island, Va. But the Navy must do more, argues EW expert Bryan Clark.
The Navy also asks for five additional F-35C fighters, an E-2D Hawkeye and 4 CMV-22s.
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The first 12 Constellation-class frigates will all be based out of Everett, Wash.
“The President’s Defense Budget Request is an outline and a starting point,” emphasizes Sen. Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The US needs to shift investment from hallowed but vulnerable legacy platforms – especially aircraft carriers and B-52 bombers – to more flexible and survivable weapons systems – above all, Aegis warships and the unfairly much-maligned F-35.
"This is a terrible idea for several reasons," Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute said. The oldest ships would need to undergo a service life extension, while the newer ships would have to undergo expensive upgrades for a complex new mission.
CDAO’s Advana data analytics platform is ingesting data from about 500 DoD business systems.
“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.
US, British, and Norwegian vessels held wargames in the Barents Sea, near the HQ of Russia's Northern Fleet.
House Democrats want to add $2.5 billion to build a second Virginia-class submarine next year. Senate Republicans would rather spend on destroyers and amphibious ships.
With contractors on the way, the union and the company remain at an impasse even as seven Navy destroyers languish pierside.