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Heather Mongilio • USNI News

Navy Set to Miss FY23 Recruiting Goals by Nearly 16%

The Navy will likely miss its recruiting goals by 6,000 sailors for the current fiscal year, the vice chief of naval operations testified...

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CDR Salamander • CDR Salamander

Big Surface Combatants are so Hot Right Now

...all the cool kids are getting them......

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Bryan Clark • Hudson Institute

A U.S. Navy Fleet for 21st Century Deterrence and Combat

The United States Navy is contending with a new era of competition after more than 80 years as the world’s dominant maritime force....

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Heather Mongilio • USNI News

USS Stout Loses Power During Port Visit Due to ‘Engineering Casualty’

USS Stout (DDG-55) was in port in Augusta Bay, Italy, for a scheduled port visit on Oct. 25 when it experienced an engineering casualty, causing the...

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Diana Stancy • Breaking Defense

Navy Unfairly Evaluated Saildrone Musv Proposal, Court Finds

... the Navy must reevaluate Saildrone’s proposal within the next two months, and is barred from spending a large chunk of its MUSV budget until that...

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Naval News Staff • Naval News

HII and Thales Demonstrate UUV with End-to-End Autonomous MCM

Together, these technologies demonstrated a complete “Find, Fix, Finish” mission chain of mine countermeasure operations ......

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Mark Montgomery • Defense News

On American Destroyers, Avoid a Self-Inflicted Wound in Spain

Sometimes friends behave badly. When that happens, it is not smart to hurt yourself in retaliation for the friend’s bad behavior....

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Giulia Bernacchi • The Defense Post

GE Aerospace to Supply Engines for Two US Navy Flight III Destroyers

GE Aerospace has received orders for eight LM2500 marine gas turbines to power two future US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers...

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Heather Mongilio • USNI News

First Flight II San Antonio-class Amphib Completes Builder’s Trials

The first Flight II San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock completed builder’s sea trials over the weekend...

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Naval News Navy • Global Defense News

U.S. Navy Expands Unmanned Mine Hunting

The U.S. Navy is expanding its unmanned mine countermeasures capabilities...

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William D. Hartung • The National Interest

How the Iran War Compounded the U.S. Navy’s Maintenance Crisis

According to former Naval Commander Bryan Clark, maintenance times for Navy combat ships involved in the Iran War could double because of long,...

6d agoRead it on The National Interest