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One of the defining features of Operation Epic Fury, a high-intensity air and sea campaign against Iran, was an unprecedented level of missile expenditure....
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One of the defining features of Operation Epic Fury, a high-intensity air and sea campaign against Iran, was an unprecedented level of missile expenditure....
According to recent news reports, the U.S. Navy is making plans to launch a Blackbeard hypersonic missile from an F/A-18 Super Hornet by 2027....
Just moments before he left office, former Navy Secretary John Phelan told USNI the service was considering foreign shipyards to accelerate and strengthen U.S....
The end of the Cold War brought an early end to the promising, heavily armed Seawolf-class submarines, capable boats that arguably would have continued...
“We built the best submarine ever, and now we can’t replace it. The U.S. Navy has no real solution for this.” That’s how a...
One of the first things a U.S. Navy sailor learns in boot camp is how to fight fires onboard ships. This is deadly serious...
We recently reported that the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers (DDGs), after being nearly metaphorically and bureaucratically “sunk” by a combination of an underperforming deck...
Earlier this year, Korea’s Ministry of National Defense issued a significant announcement and publicly revealed a legal push to provide the legal framework for...
This Nimitz-class aircraft carrier might have first sailed in 1977, but she is proving that even old supercarriers can make a big comeback. In...
The Zumwalt-Class was supposed to be the future of the surface fleet. The Navy planned to build 32. It got three. Naval officials get...