When the Trump administration and a Republican-controlled Washington started to boost military...Michael Fabey, Washington, DCJane's Defence Weekly
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 ...
From the Box: Your US Navy Combat Fleet is composed of 12 famous US Navy vessels, of types which would most commonly be found in a naval team at sea on a combat operation. All ships are accurately scaled to each other and may be either placed on the realistic bottom-of-the-box seasca...
"USS Momsen and USS Harpers Ferry were transiting opposite directions in the San Diego Bay in close vicinity, Nov. 29. Both ships maneuvered to safety," U.S. 3rd Fleet spokesman Lt. Samuel Boyle toldABC Newsin a statement. Neither was damaged and no sailors were hurt as a result of th...
In January, the USS Antietam guided missile cruiser ran aground near Yokosuka base, the home port of the 7th Fleet, and in May another cruiser, the USS Lake Champlain from the Navy’s 3rd Fleet, had a minor collision with a South Korean fishing boat. Aucoin assumed command of the 7th ...
The U.S.Navymay not have the most ships of any country's fleet, but it is well established as the greatest power on the world's seas. TheNavy owns 11 of the world's 43 active aircraft carriers-- and that doesn't count its nearly two dozen flat-decked amphibious ships that might we...
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. ...
Despite challenges, the hard work of the entire shipbuilding team enable this very proud day — watching the Navy sail this ship and join the fleet to support the defense of our nation.” “I’m very grateful for the resilient and dedicated shipbuilders on our team, each is world class,”...
The United States Navy ships, tactics and operations during the second world war, in the pacific, Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters
A statement from the U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet, based in Japan, said its operations in the South China Sea demonstrate a commitment “to upholding a free and open Indo-Pacific region where all nations, large and small, are secure in their sovereignty, can resolve...