In a recent report to Congress, the US Navy (USN) revised its combatant vessel requirement to 306 ships: down from the previous fleet size of 313 ships. According to the navy, the change in fleet numbers is largely in response to the Department of Defense's 2012 strategy, which shifts ...
Vice Admiral Karl Thomas, U.S. Navy, Commander of Seventh Fleet shares his views on a LIVE webinar broadcast with the U.S. Naval Institute and the Center for Strategic and International Studies on October 14th 2022. Photo: Screenshot of CSIS Webinar. “Everything we do, we try to do i...
Review of the Atlantic Fleet Minesweeping Squadron, November 1919. USS Lapwing (AM-1) and other ships of the squadron anchored in the Hudson River, off New York City, while being reviewed by Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels on 24 November 1919, following their return to the United St...
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 US Navy (USN) needs to shift its global force management plans to better reflect the more dangerous and competitive nature in the world, according to Admiral Daryl Caudle, commander, US Fleet Forces Command. “We typically generate forces with our model ...
Navy says Iran has threatened two American maritime patrol aircraft flying over the Strait of Hormuz. It's the latest in a series of encounters between Iranian and American forces raising tensions in and around the Persian Gulf. U.S. 5th Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Bill Urban said in a s...
Navy submarine designed with women in mind The USS New Jersey is one of the newest submarines to join the U.S. Naval fleet. It's the first Navy submarine designed with women in mind, and it boasts a crew that includes 40 women sailors. Charlie D'Agata has the story. ...
The U.S. Navy is struggling with a fundamental question: What numbers and types of assets might it need in the coming decades? Congress is trying to nudge the Navy to expand the size of the fleet. For fiscal 2023, it added nearly 20% to the Navy’s request forsh...
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“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...