The problem is that the navy's current shipbuilding plans require an average of at least $15 billion per year to fund, yet the service can reasonably assume it will receive only $10 billion annually to pay for new ship construction, according to several congressional staff and analysts. "It...
USNS Montford Point (MLP 1), the lead ship of the class, is also currently under construction and is scheduled to be christened in 2013. The contract for the third ship, the future USNS Lewis Puller, was awarded in February 2012. Image: Illustration of the US Navy’s mobile landing pla...
The Navy recycled the name “Penguin” during WWII for the lead ship(ASR-12)of a class of submarine rescue and salvage vessels. Commissioned 29 May 1944. She spent a lengthy career working out of New London with the Second Fleet and Rota with the Sixth and, while she conducted hundreds o...
Yet despite the failures of this ship, the Navy is building more and is considering building new hospital ships based off this same failed design. “Ten years after the introduction of the first Spearheads, the Navy is still trying to find missions for them.” Says maritime historian Dr. ...
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding division has reached pressure hull complete stage in the construction of US Navy’s Virginia-class submarine Massachusetts (SSN 798).
USNS John Lewis (T-AO 205), the US Navy’s lead ship of its new class of fleet replenishment oilers, has completed initial builder’s trials.
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Currently, the Zumwalt is on track to cost more than $3.5 billion. That’s a hefty sum, but, much to the relief of Navy officials, the ship’s construction is on time and on budget. Previous Navy programs, like the new fleet of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), haven’t been nearly as...
The next nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy is now three-quarters structurally complete following the recent installation of the forward area of the ship’s main deck, shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced today. ...
The previous situation was that when the new Columbia class nuclear submarines began construction, the Navy reduced its annual production of two Virginia class submarines to one. Based on the previous Navy assessment, the department subsequently began planning to build two Virginia class submarines and...