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WEB3 days ago · USS Manchester Returns to San Diego Homeport - by Lt. Brinn Hefron, 11 September 2024 SAN DIEGO – The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Manchester (LCS 14) arrived at its San Diego homeport Sept. 11, following an 18-month deployment. “We are extremely proud of the accomplishments made by the USS Manchester crews throughout their ...
Navy’s Second Ford CVN to Join the U.S. Pacific Fleet
WEBNov 28, 2023 · MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 11, 2023) The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) refuels from the underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 11, 2023. The second Ford-class CVN, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), …
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Pentagon Assessment: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy
WEBSep 1, 2020 · A Chinese Type 052C destroyer, the Changchun, in Malaysia in 2017. ARLINGTON, Va. — The People’s Republic of China, increasing its two-decade military buildup, now has the world’s largest navy, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s latest annual assessment of China’s military capabilities. The …
Rescue Swimmer Program Starts After Tragedy at Sea
WEBMay 6, 2019 · NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — The Coast Guard rescue swimmer program was born after a deadly ship sinking in 1983 off the coast of Virginia that claimed the lives of 31 people. During a stormy February night, the 605-foot SS Marine Electric, a bulk carrying ship, capsized about 30 miles off the coast of Chincoteague, Virginia. The service sent a ...
Philippine Navy Retires Four Ships as it Transitions to ... - Seapower
WEBMar 23, 2021 · The Republic of the Philippines’ navy is making a pivot from older legacy ships and craft to newer and more capable surface combatants. On March 1, 2021, the RPN decommissioned four of its oldest ships in a ceremony at the Heracleo Alano Naval Base in Sangley Point, Cavite City on the island of …
Triton Deploys at Last: The Navy Takes Its New UAV to the …
WEBApr 29, 2020 · The Navy is working on deploying the Triton with IFC 4, which gives the UAV a signals intelligence capability and will put it on the path to replace the Navy’s EP-3E electronic reconnaissance aircraft. IFC 4, also called the multi-int (multi-intelligence) capability, is planned for fiscal 2022. Multi-int capability deployed in four Tritons at ...
Newport News Shipbuilding Part of 4th Industrial Revolution
WEBAug 2, 2021 · Newport News Shipbuilding Part of 4th Industrial Revolution. Posted on August 2, 2021 by Richard R. Burgess, Senior Editor. Newport News Shipbuilding contractor Andrew Blair, from Birmingham, Alabama, cuts into the deck aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), in Newport News, Virginia, June 17, 2021.
Navy’s Future Carrier Air Wing Configuration Coming into Focus
WEBSep 14, 2020 · ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy has laid out the planned configuration of its carrier air wings of the future in a presentation to a convention of active and retired naval aviation personnel. Speaking Sept. 11 at the Virtual Hook convention webinar of the Tailhook Association, Rear Adm. Gregory N. Harris, director of …
USS Cheyenne to Lead Los Angeles-Class Submarine Life Extension
WEBARLINGTON, Va. — The last Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) built, USS Cheyenne, will be the first of the class selected to go through a service life-extension program, a senior Navy admiral said. The Navy is planning to refuel six Los Angeles-class SSNs, said Adm. Frank Caldwell, director of the Navy’s Nuclear Power ...