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Summary and Key Points – A report says the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is shifting from the South China Sea to the...
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Summary and Key Points – A report says the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group is shifting from the South China Sea to the...
Summary and Key Points: The Navy is preparing to arm the three Zumwalt-class destroyers with Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic weapons, aiming for operational deployment...
Summary and Key Points: The BBG(X) Trump-class battleship concept is colliding with a separate modernization priority: the DDG(X) next-generation destroyer. -Critics argue the two...
Key Points and Summary – The Navy is weighing whether the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group can take on another major...
Summary and Key Points: Huntington Ingalls’ CEO says the Navy will provide its first concrete design-schedule guidance for the BBG(X) “Trump-class” guided-missile battleship within...
Synopsis and Key Points: China’s DF-27 is presented as an operational, conventionally armed intercontinental-range missile with an anti-ship variant designed to threaten U.S. aircraft...
Summary and Key Points: Commissioned in 1943 and modernized across World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War, USS New Jersey later faced...
Automation Is the Key – Summary and Key Points: Despite setbacks like the delayed Maritime Action Plan and the cancellation of the Constellation-class frigate,...
Synopsis: In a 2005 Pacific war game, the Swedish diesel-electric submarine HSwMS Gotland shattered the myth of U.S. naval invincibility by repeatedly “sinking” the...
Key Points and Summary – Starting in 2026, U.S. Navy special operators—including SEALs, SWCC, EOD, and divers—will face a demanding new Combat Fitness Test...