U.S. Navy News

The Pentagon explains its now emerging Columbia-class submarines are the number 1 acquisition priority across the DoD

The exercises, which included US units from Commander, Destroyer Squadron 15 (DESRON) and Japan’s JS Teruzuki, sought to solidify the US-Japanese deterrence posture in the Pacific theater

Block IV Virginia-class submarines are an interesting bridge between the massively upgraded Block III boats and the in development Block V Virginia Payload Modules boats

The Army plans to field its ground-mobile Long Range Hypersonic Weapon by 2023 and the Navy says its on track to deploy its Conventional Prompt Strike on destroyers by 2025.

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The Constellation will come in at 496 feet and displace 7,300 tons. The frigate’s size and weight are, by design, intended to fit between littoral combat ships and DDG 51 destroyers

The US Navy has had a breakthrough - it fired a hypersonic weapon 109 nautical miles in two minutes, a massive development

The Columbia-class boats incorporate a new generation of technologies

The Block V Tactical Tomahawk is the most modern variant which introduces course correcting technology enabling the weapon to adjust its trajectory to hit moving targets.

“The Army is fielding a hypersonic weapon in 2023 and the Navy in 2025" - Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday

Extending land-attack from the sea with Marine Expeditionary Units is central to this strategy, should the Corps need to conduct amphibious operations from the Baltic or Black Sea

The Navy says a large number of LCS ships need to be retired because they simply cannot hold up against an increasingly advanced Chinese threat in the Pacific

China is already building its third and fourth aircraft carriers, plans to double its force of destroyers and is adding Type 075 amphibious assault ships

The new ACV can travel roughly 13 miles through water, at about six knots, from ship to shore, it can hit speeds of 60mph on land for hundreds of miles inland.

China clearly seeks to counter or mask the US Navy’s forward presence in the Pacific, a mission which places the US in an optimal position to defend Taiwan

Hypersonic missile-armed attack submarines would present enemies with a dilemma, as they could hit enemy targets on shore while remaining difficult to detect by enemy radar

Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro told the Senate Armed Services Committee the President has sufficient “tools” in his tool to deter adversaries considering the use of nuclear weapon

The service has now laid the keel for the future USS John Canley, the Navy’s fourth Expeditionary Sea Base ship

Well evolved systems include the Large Diameter Unmanned Undersea vehicle called the Snakehead and the smaller Razorback surveillance and mine-hunting drone

Type 055D destroyers are Zumwalt-like in that they have a slightly rounded hull exterior and blended contours as part of what looks like an effort to lower a radar signature

This is an extremely significant development for a number of reasons

The principle advantage of hypersonics is simply”time,” the speed at which they can hit an enemy target massively shortens the response curve for potential enemies.

Technological advances have enabled developers to engineer weapons with improved capacity, however many of them rely upon much greater amounts of expeditionary power

New weapons, propulsion technologies and energetics are rapidly emerging, generating a need for new innovative launcher technologies