The message from Fleet Forces Command described the Navy’s acquisition strategy as “a rapid, iterative, block approach to further develop, test, and employ new capabilities, aligned with the Surface Capability Evolution Plan,” referencing a document developed inside the ...
Although often overlooked in favour of operational flying activities, any military force must be underpinned by a robust and flexible training pipeline. In the case of the US Navy (USN) and US Marine Corps, that pipeline contains 26%, or 679, of its total aircraft inventory and accounts for...
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) concluded a weeklong unmanned systems and artificial intelligence integration exercise with the United Arab Emirates Navy in the Arabian Gulf, Feb. 20. Five unmanned surface vessels (USVs) from the Emirati navy and NAVCENT’s Task Force 59 op...
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 ...
Navy’s Seventh Fleet said on Sunday. Vice Admiral Karl Thomas assured the Philippines of U.S. backing in the face of “shared challenges” in the region, saying: “My forces are out here for a reason.” The largest of the U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed fleets, the Seventh Fleet,...
VADM Thomas said that there is a contingency plan for Indian-Pacific Command (INDO-PACOM) on where to place forces and that the U.S. Navy is building capabilities around its Seventh Fleet Area of Responsibility. VADM Thomas commented about F-35Bs operating fromAmerica-class big-deck amphibious...
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“My charge to you and your team is to keep that tenacity, that toughness, and grit going because the challenges will keep coming,”Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command counseled Oster and his crew.“It will be hard, but I know that you and the 330 of the ...
The Navy's recently re-established 2nd Fleet will reach initial operational capability next spring, according to the director of joint and fleet operations for U.S. Fleet Forces Command. Rear Adm. Doug Perry told attendees at the Naval Submarine League's annual conference the fleet would reach ...
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) transferred three patrol craft to the Egyptian Navy during a formal ceremony in Alexandria, Egypt on 21 March.