By David Dunlop, 13 February 2023 It appears that Australia’s AUKUS submarine decision will be coming in March 2023 and it may not be anything that most expect. It was […]
RCN Public Affairs, 08 December 2022. HMCS Montreal returned to its home port of Halifax last month, after having sailed in the North Atlantic with the U.S. Navy’s 2nd Fleet and the Gerald […]
By Kyle Mizokami, 08 April 2022. “The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, the most expensive warship ever built, is finally ready for combat duty. The U.S. Navy quietly approved […]
CNR Fan, 17 February 2022 Russia claims that it has captured secret equipment from a US Navy Virginia-class nuclear submarine that Russia claims was operating within its territorial waters off the Pacific […]
CNR Fan, 25 January 2022. According to CBS News, NATO kicked off a naval exercise Monday with an American carrier strike group along with forces from other NATO allies practicing […]
Credit: ABC News, 04 November 2021 The Navy has fired the top three leaders who were aboard the attack submarine USS Connecticut when it struck an uncharted sea mountain in […]
According to Business Insider, a US Navy amphibious assault ship was destroyed by fire last summer in part because sailors failed to press a button that could have activated a […]
UNIAN, International press. 09 June 2021. In Odessa, Ukraine, organizers have completed planning of the multinational exercises Sea Breeze 2021, which will be held in the Black Sea region (Mykolaiv, […]
David Dunlop, 13 January 2021. The USN will deploy its first High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance (HELIOS) integrated on an operational Flight IIA Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer […]
CNR Fan, 12 December 2020. Cyber-attacks are all over the news [1][2]. Besides individuals and enterprises [3][4], hackers are now probing security of government servers and the industry [5][6]. Over […]
Ex-Sailor, 21 November 2020. In late 2018 United States (U.S.) Government Accountability Office (GAO) produced an interesting report on cybersecurity in U.S. DOD Weapon Systems. It’s relevant to the future […]
An interesting article was published by www.defenseone.com It talks about U.S. Navy’s investigation of the 21 August 2017 collision of USS McCain with a cargo ship off Singapore. That accident […]
Dr. Ann Griffiths, 30 September 2020. There’s an interesting article in Foreign Affairs (29 September 2020) by Robert David English and Morgan Grant Gardner called “Phantom Peril in the Arctic: […]
David Dunlop, 22 April 2020 Hospital ships are excellent vehicles of international policy, diplomacy and humanitarian efforts. They can provide humanitarian assistance during disasters, advanced medical treatment, services and on-board […]
Joe Varner, 03 April 2020. Chinese strategists have dreamed of an asymmetric method to disable the US aircraft carrier for decades.[1] Now they have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams but […]
Moderator. 2 January 2020. Canada is no stranger to the politics of naval procurement. We have all wondered about a procurement decision. Naval projects usually involve huge sums of money […]
16 April 2018. Moderator. There was a very interesting article in USNI News, about the Littoral Combat Ships. Both varieties of the LCS are having troubles. The article says that […]
There’s no doubt that the US military is the most powerful force in the game these days. However, unlike in the Cold War when it was laser-focused on one strategic […]
After the publication of the Comprehensive Review of Recent Surface Force Incidents, the US Navy is beginning to implement changes. The report noted that USN sailors were deficient in the […]
As we all know, several USN ships were involved in collisions in recent months. The collision of USS Fitzgerald with MV ACX Crystal, and USS John S. McCain with MV […]
