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Summary and Key Points: USS Gerald R. Ford is extending its June 24, 2025, deployment and shifting to the Middle East amid rising tensions...
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Summary and Key Points: USS Gerald R. Ford is extending its June 24, 2025, deployment and shifting to the Middle East amid rising tensions...
Summary and Key Points: Why the U.S. Navy Built Only 3 Seawolf-class Submarines -The Seawolf-class was built to be the Navy’s next leap in...
Summary and Key Points: USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, is slated for a major maintenance period after its recent deployment,...
Summary and Key Points: China’s carrier program is accelerating fast, with the Fujian already in sea trials and reporting suggesting a fourth “supercarrier” could...
Summary and Key Points: With USS Nimitz nearing retirement and USS John F. Kennedy still not fully ready, the U.S. Navy risks a dangerous...
Summary and Key Points: As Washington sends a second carrier group to the Middle East, the key question isn’t negotiations with Iran but whether...
Summary and Key Points: Trump’s BBG(X) ‘Trump-class’ guided-missile battleship is pitched as a huge command-and-control platform to replace retiring cruisers. -Renderings and Navy briefings...
Summary and Key Points: China’s anti-access/area-denial strategy is built to hold U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups at risk with long-range missiles, hypersonic glide vehicles,...
Summary and Key Points: France’s Charles de Gaulle is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in service outside the United States, and it remains the...
Summary and Key Points: After colliding with an uncharted seamount on October 2, 2021, USS Connecticut (SSN-22) suffered major bow damage that sidelined one...