The crew of the guided missile destroyer Stockdale has stayed busy these past couple weeks conducting a live fire exercise and anti-piracy training even as Navy leaders trying to balance shrinking budgets with readiness concerns. Navy leadership has told Congress at the multiple budget hearings on Capitol Hill how the cuts brought on by sequestration […]
Ships and Subs
The U.S. Navy is helping Germany arm its fleet with more than 400 anti-ship missile systems. The Navy announced the March 29 $343,550,330 contract award to RAMSYS GmbH, Ottobrunn, Germany for the production of 445 Block 2 MK-44 Mod 4 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Missile Round Pack (GMRP) All-Up-Rounds, according to a Defense Department […]
The U.S. military wants to build a medium-sized drone that it can fly off Littoral Combat Ship 2 (LCS2)-class ships. Long endurance drones have caught the eye of naval leaders, and well, pretty much all military officials for their ability to collect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR). However, most of the drones that can stay […]
The Office of Naval Research recently announced that USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) will be equipped with four Rolls-Royce Axial-Flow Waterjet Mk-1 engines, which they claim will both improve performance and reduce required maintenance over the life of the ship. According to ONR the new Axial-Flow Waterjet Mk-1 can move nearly half a million gallons of […]
The Navy wants to build unmanned platforms that it can place in the depths of the the world’s oceans to have them float to the surface when the military needs the supplies or equipment stored within them. It sounds almost like the plot from a movie like the Transformers. Machines rising from the bottoms of […]
