Dynamic duo: US Navy sees resurrected 2nd Fleet as competitive counter in North AtlanticIn reconstituting the 2nd Fleet, the US Navy is counting on the reorganised force to keep the...Michael Fabey, Washington, DCIHS Jane's Navy International...
The Gerald R. Ford-class is a fleet of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs) being developed by the Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) for the US Navy under its CVN-21 Aircraft Carrier Program. In January 2007, the US Navy announced that the ...
"When USS Gerald R. Ford joins the Navy's fleet in 2016, she will reign as America's queen of the sea for 50 years," said Newport News Shipbuilding President Matt Mulherin during its 2013 christening ceremony. "She will stand as a symbol of sovereign US territory wherever she sails. Sh...
The ship will then transit to San Diego, California, and have its combat system installed like its sister ships. The Navy also took delivery of the Areligh Burke-class destroyer Delbert Black, DDG-119, from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Blac...
“Part of it has to be that the Navy continues to struggle to put the time and money into maintenance availabilities that they need to,” Clark said. “Particularly in the surface fleet, the ships' schedules have just not been able to be freed up they...
“Like other littoral combat ships, Kansas City brings speed and agility to the fleet.” In December 2017,the US Navy laid keel for the newest Independence-class LCS, the future USS Kansas City (LCS 22), at Austal USA’s shipyard, marking the beginning of the vessel’s construction....
The Seventh Fleet is the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet and Vice Admiral (VADM) Karl Thomas is the Commander. Ships of the Seventh Fleet recently completed the Resolute Dragon 22, October 10-13, 2022, with the U.S. Marines and Japanese Ground Self-Defense Force (JGS...
A Chinese naval force was mobilized to track the USS Gabrielle Giffords during the operation, according to a statement from the People's Liberation Army Southern Theater. The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said the ship "was conducting routine operations in international wat...
Tokyo: The commander of the US Navy’s Asia-based 7th Fleet was dismissed on Wednesday after a series of warship accidents raised questions about its operations in the Pacific. A two-sentence statement issued by the Navy said Adm Scott Swift, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, had relieved ...
The secretary of the Navy’s SRR recommended that 2nd Fleet operate similarly to 3rd Fleet, which trains and certifies West Coast ships for deployment and has been increasingly taking operational command of those ships downrange. Richardson said in Norfolk that the command would come online this su...