June 8, 2017 |
brian wang |
Boeing and Huntington Ingalls Industries are teaming on the design and production of Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) in support of the U.S. Navy’s Extra Large UUV program. “This partnership provides the Navy a cost-effective, low-risk path to meet …
June 4, 2017 |
brian wang |
Chinese state media has reported that the Cihina is fitting its newest nuclear sub with an electromagnetic engine that sounds a lot like Tom Clancy’s fictional Red October engine. Rear Admiral Ma Weiming, China’s top naval engineer, is notably responsible …
June 1, 2017 |
brian wang |
The US Navy could get to a 355 ship navy in 2030 instead of 2045 by spending more to maintain cruisers, destroyers, amphibious class ships, and other Steel hulled ships. They could not extend the lives of submarines, aircraft carriers …
June 1, 2017 |
brian wang |
The Navy accepted delivery of the first-in-class aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) on May 31, following the completion of acceptance trials on May 26. The carrier had been scheduled for a March 2016 commissioning originally, but technological problems with …
May 26, 2017 |
brian wang |
The Navy plans to buy a second Virginia-class attack submarine in Fiscal Year 2021 to keep the industrial base building two SSNs a year even during Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine procurement, several Navy officials confirmed today. Due to concerns about overwhelming …
