Though its hulking size and dramatic geometry are eye-catching, the ship has been plagued by cost overruns and design challenges that left it without a clear use for the Navy. Only three ships of the class are now planned, down from an initial 32,and only one is in service: the USS Z...
He followed up with a tweet: “Thoughts & prayers are w/ our @USNavy sailors aboard the #USSJohnSMcCain where search & rescue efforts are underway.” In June, seven American sailors died when the destroyer USS Fitzgerald collided with a Philippine-flagged cargo ship in a busy channel in Ja...
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Receive Subsystem:The Receive Subsystem operates (in increments of 10 Hz) in the frequency range of 14 Khz to 1.619 Mhz and 2 Mhz to 30 Mhz. The receive subsystem requires at least two broadband antennas and 1 or 2 additional antennas dedicated to the use of the Ship Signal Exploitation Eq...
Mobile has long had a “Mardi Gras Ship” tradition with the Navy and Coast Guard, where a transiting surface warfare asset or cutter stops in and ties up downtown by the Civic Center across from Austal for the week of Mardi Gras. The crews participate in the dozen assorted local parades...
The Navy fired both the commanding and executive officers of the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center in Yokosuka, Japan, this weekend. Capt. Zaldy Valenzuela, the CO, and Cmdr. Art Palalay, his second-in-command, were removed from their respectiv...
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea.
The transport dock ship Green Bay, the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S. Diehl and the amphibious dock landing ship Ashland conduct a replenishment-at-sea with MH-60S Seahawk helicopters on Jan. 30, 2019, in the Philippine Sea. (MC1 Daniel Barker/U.S. Navy...
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...
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Craig Woolley guides one of the last pieces of equipment to be loaded onto the Navy's Military Sealift Command ship, the USNS Benavidez. (John Orrell/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army is pushing Congress to act on alooming sealift shortfallthat will cr...