The US Navy, along withAustalUSA, haschristened its 14th Expeditionary Fast Transport(EPF), USNS Cody, at a ceremony in Mobile, Alabama. The ceremony was held at Austal USA’s manufacturing facility in Mobile. As well as being the first EPF Flight II, USNS Cody is the first vessel of t...
Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship USNS Carson City (T-EPF 7) pier side in Constanta, Romania, in August 2018. (U.S. Navy photo by Kyle Steckler) The U.S. Navy has awarded Austal an undefinitized contract action (UCA), valued at $57.8 million, to fund the acquisition of...
The JHSV - recently reclassified as the Expeditionary Fast Transfer (EPF) platform - is a 2,400-tonne aluminium-hulled catamaran transport ship designed to provide high-speed intra-theatre sealift for US military forces.Kelvln WongJane's Defence Weekly...
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“Current plans have two being converted into hospital transports, one into an autonomous ship platform, and more on the way. Current tests include loading Marines onboard for forward presence, use as a training platform with allied navies, and other missions that don’t require a Navy ...
With ANTX, the Navy and Marine Corps are bringing the warfighter together with the engineer to address an operational problem, “ said Bill Bray, DASN RTD&E. “It could be agile, resilient logistics; or moving data from one place to another; or a specific mission area, such as ship-to-...
Navy is facing a lawsuit over allegations of a senior engineering officer’s rape by the captain of the USNS Carson City, a Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship operated by the Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC). The complaint, filed in federal court in New Jersey by Sanford...
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File photo: U.S. Navy sailors and civil service mariners (CIVMAR) assigned to USNS Burlington (T-EPF 10) moor the ship to the pier at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story (Credit: Ryan Carter / U.S. Navy) “COVID created a lot of uncertainty, and kept us from actively ...
On March 19, 1945, Comfort-class hospital ship USS Mercy (AH 8) reported to the Imperial Japanese Navy 5th Fleet at the Ulithi Atoll to assist the Okinawa campaign during WWII. Throughout this campaign, USS Mercy made several stops in Okinawa where they began embarking and treating patients ...