Naval Surface Warfare Center Philadelphia Division Story by Keegan Rammel Friday, June 5, 2020 Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Division (NSWCPD) recently worked alongside Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Naval Sea Logistics Center (NSLC) to establish a new official online database called eForms for all Navy shock data... Read more
Jim Mattis insta a la Armada estadounidense a actuar de forma impredecible
WIB sea December 26, 2018
Bueno, hay una razón por la que se le apoda «Caos». En abril de 2018 el Ministro de Defensa estadounidense Jim Mattis dejó a la comunidad naval afligida al cuestionar, estilo Hamlet, los esfuerzos de la Armada estadounidense por rotar sus fuerzas de superficie, anfibias y de portaaviones desde... Read more
The U.S. Navy’s Carrier Air Wings Lack Range
WIB air December 19, 2018
The U.S. Navy’s carrier air wings lack the range to win in battle with Chinese and Russian forces, according to one new study. The Navy’s nine front-line wings “lack the range, endurance, survivability and specialization to carry out the operational concepts needed to defeat great-power militaries,” the Washington, D.C.-based... Read more
Don’t Fear the Military Technothriller
WIB culture December 12, 2018
An award-winning short story by a top U.S. Navy intelligence officer serves as a thinly-veiled warning. The Navy, and the country it serves, must better prepare for war with China. And if they don’t, America will lose aircraft carriers, destroyers, presumably thousands of sailors … and the war. Capt.... Read more
The U.S. Navy Can’t Fix Its Submarines
WIB sea November 21, 2018
The U.S. Navy wants to add 10 new attack submarines to its fleet, but according to a scathing government report, it can’t maintain the 56 attack submarines it has as of late 2018. “The Navy has been unable to begin or complete the vast majority of its attack submarine... Read more
Big Submarine. Lots of Cruise Missiles.
WIB sea November 15, 2018
The U.S. Navy is firming up plans for new, large cruise-missile submarines to replace the four aging Ohio-class SSGNs. The sailing branch is also working on a new missile for these boats. The combination of new submarines and missiles could help the Navy to restore its overall firepower potential... Read more
The U.S. Navy Reveals Two Future Submarine Classes
WIB sea October 25, 2018
The U.S. Navy plans to develop two new classes of submarine, according to congressional analysis of the sea service’s shipbuilding plan for 2019. The submarines could help to maintain the Navy’s advantage in submarine-on-submarine warfare while also filling a looming shortfall in the sailing branch’s capacity for sea-to-land missile... Read more
Is the U.S. Navy Too Small to Protect Convoys?
WIB sea October 17, 2018
The U.S. military’s top sealift officials are worried that, in a war with Russia or China, the U.S. Navy might not have enough warships to escort vital supply convoys from the United States to war zones in Europe or Asia. Those fears might be overblown. Regardless, the Navy is... Read more
The U.S. Navy Tried to Create a Far-Out Seaplane Strike Force
WIB history September 20, 2018
This story originally appeared on March 1, 2015. After World War II, the U.S. Navy found itself in uncertain waters, despite its enormous successes in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters. Blame the atomic bomb. The 1946 Operation Crossroads nuclear tests demonstrated naval power’s vulnerability to atomic attack. And the... Read more
The U.S. Navy’s New Carrier Drone Borrows 1970s Stealth
WIB air September 11, 2018
The U.S. Navy’s new MQ-25 Stingray aerial-refueling drone bears an uncanny resemblance to an experimental U.S. military plane from the late 1970s. And that similarity could point to the way for the Stingray’s potential evolution from a tanker into a stealthy surveillance and strike aircraft. On Aug. 30, the... Read more