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Ordered in 2014, commissioned in 2026: the dozen-year clock on America's newest submarines, and the two-yard bottleneck quietly setting the fleet's size.
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Ordered in 2014, commissioned in 2026: the dozen-year clock on America's newest submarines, and the two-yard bottleneck quietly setting the fleet's size.
Sixteen years from first steel to the fleet — for a ship America once built in two. Follow the Kennedy through the yard and...
The Navy didn't want them. The fleet mocked them. Then six of the little carriers found themselves alone in the path of Japan's main...
Twice in thirteen months, Iran has forced the Pentagon to drain scarce interceptor stocks in a theater Washington calls secondary. Latham's argument: Beijing is...
The USS Gerald R. Ford has begun a planned incremental availability (PIA) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard that is expected to last around 18 months....
Tehran treats the Strait of Hormuz as non-negotiable, Holmes writes, and no air campaign eliminates every missile. That leaves four courses: walk away and...
In April 1945, Japan sent the Yamato — the largest and most powerful battleship ever built — on a one-way suicide mission to Okinawa....
The famous number in America’s submarine crisis is the construction gap. But a large share of the boats the Navy already owns cannot go...
The Zumwalt-class was meant to revolutionize naval warfare: 32 stealth destroyers built around a 155mm Advanced Gun System. Costs collapsed the fleet to three...
The FFG(X) program had one governing requirement: don't repeat the Littoral Combat Ship. The Navy chose Fincantieri's proven FREMM design, told Congress 85 percent...