The US Navy hasn’t got the ships and hasn’t got the men
To keep pace with an expanding Chinese fleet, the US Navy is still clinging to an ambitious – but so far unrealised – plan to ...
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Navy Boss Lays Out Ambitious Goals on Ships and Recruiting But Dodges on Accountability
USNI reported Wednesday that maintenance for all of the Navy's surface ships is about 2,700 days behind schedule. That figure ...
Navy’s first fully gender-integrated submarine joins the fleet. Here’s what that means.
The USS New Jersey has been heralded as the Navy’s first fully gender-integrated submarine following a series of changes made ...
National Interest on MSN9d
Is the Era of Big Navy Warships Really Over Afterall?
Is the era of “Big Warships” over? Scholars have made this claim, as Tom Barnett did twenty years ago in The Pentagon’s New ...
The National Interest on MSN13d
The Era of Large U.S. Navy Warships Is All Done Now
The dominance of large surface warships like aircraft carriers is under threat due to China’s anti-access/area-denial (A2/AD) ...
Stars and Stripes4d
The Navy will buy more oilers. Now it needs enough mariners to crew them
The temporary fix is to sideline 17 ships. The Navy hopes that a plan to reassign ... according to its website. In all, roughly 5,500 civilians fill about 4,500 jobs across Military Sealift ...
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Report: Sailor shortage is undermining Navy’s ability to keep ships combat-ready
The Navy also is struggling to maintain its littoral ... The chronic shortage of parts was an issue mentioned by executives and sailors on all 25 ships that the GAO visited.
USS White River: How the US Navy transformed a landing vessel into a legendary rocket artillery ship
Today's US Navy is poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago when it had ships like ...
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Inside the US Navy's $500 Million Littoral Combat Ship
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Military Times10d
Get to know the heroic WWII namesake of the Navy’s newest ship
Though he was peppered by shrapnel and severely burned after a kamikaze pilot slammed into his ship, Lt. Richard McCool Jr.
The Navy needs more manpower, training to keep ships combat-ready
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the Navy doesn’t fill all required ship positions, and ...
Lessons from Red Sea and Ukraine's Black Sea fight help prep Navy for possible conflict with China
The Navy is taking lessons from its combat in the Red Sea and from what Ukraine has done to hold off the Russians in the ...