Japan has joined the growing number of countries investing in hypersonic missile systems. The Japanese defense ministry plans to develop hypersonic missiles and new warheads and deploy the first systems in… Continue reading "Japan Pursues Hypersonic Missiles for Remote Island Defense"
Leonardo Helicopters and Britain’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) are scheduled to conduct trials next month of Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) with a British Army AH1 Lynx Wildcat controlling an… Continue reading "UK Manned-Unmanned Teaming for Lynx Wildcat"
On January 20, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas B. Modly officially named CVN 81 – USS Doris Miller, after the first African-American recipient of the Navy Cross. The naming… Continue reading "CVN 81 Named After Doris Miller, WWII Hero"
Social media posts out of Murmansk on 12 December revealed that the Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, had caught fire. This was later confirmed by official news coverage. The… Continue reading "Fire Aboard Admiral Kuznetsov"
On the morning of 10 December, HMS Prince of Wales was commissioned at HM Naval Base Portsmouth. The raising of the White Ensign marked the formal entry into service of… Continue reading "Britain’s Second Carrier HMS Prince of Wales Commissioned"
On 7 December, the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) Ford-class aircraft carrier was christened at Newport News Shipbuilding by Ambassador Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy. CVN… Continue reading "USS John F. Kennedy Christened"
The US Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey tested the new America-class amphibious assault ship’s ystems as it cruised the Gulf of Mexico for three days. It returned to the… Continue reading "USS Tripoli (LHA-7) Passes Navy Testing Before Commissioning"
On 30 September, Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Newport News Shipbuilding reported that it had completed the dry dock portion of the USS George Washington (CVN-73) Nimitz-class carrier’s refueling and complex overhaul… Continue reading "Dry Dock Work For USS George Washington Refuelling Completed"
The development of the Chinese navy, the PLA-N, has accelerated dramatically in recent years. New ships, from missile armed fast attack craft to guided missile destroyers and landing platform docks,… Continue reading "New Images Appear of First PLA-N Type 075 Landing Helicopter Dock"
That the Navy’s newest aircraft carrier is having problems with its weapons elevators is hardly news. The new elevators, capable of moving more ordnance faster than the older models fitted… Continue reading "Navy Doubles Down on Fixing USS Ford’s Weapons Elevators"