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...
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...
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...
USS John L. Canley (ESB-6) is the United States Navy’s third-largest flight deck shit and the fourth Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base. The ship was constructed in San Diego, California, by the National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO), a division of General Dynamics...
The Navy Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) is an anti-ship missile system developed for the US Marine Corps (USMC) to support land-to-sea attacks performed by the US Navy. The NMESIS features the US Navy’s latest anti-ship missile, theNaval Strike Missile (NSM), ...
“We’ve worked very closely with the operating forces, such as the U.S. Fourth Fleet, where we’ve used available assets such as the USNS Spearhead, an expeditionary fast transport (EPF) as a vessel of opportunity to test various unmanned systems and adaptive force packages to provide intel...
Our subject is the second U.S. Navy ship to carry the name of the Antarctic flightless bird. The first was a155-foot screw steamerarmed with a quartet of 32-pounders and a single 12-pounder that served with distinction on the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron and along the Gulf of Mexico...
Leading boat launch and recovery systems supplier Vestdavit will deliver the most advanced motion-compensated davits in the world to the US Navy, following orders placed with Vestdavit Inc. by General Dynamics NASSCO to equip two Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ships. The US shipbuilder’s San ...
US and Royal Navy personnel responded to a distress call, on June 4th, from a cargo vessel traversing the Strait of Hormuz as Iranian fast-attack vessels harassed the ship. Maritime Health Watch: Secretary of the U.S. Navy names first-in-class expeditionary medical ship ...
In addition to decommissioning teenage Littoral Combat Ships while still building more, the navy has also laid up the 11 year old USNS Spearhead the first of the Spearhead class Expeditionary Fast Transport ships. Yet despite the failures of this ship, the Navy is building more and is ...