The results of sequestration continue to bite the Navy in the ass… The U.S. Navy’s cruiser modernization program has been disorganized in its planning and troubled in its execution, service leaders have told Defense News. <snip> Seven cruisers were put … Continue reading
Category Archives: Navy issues
Just needs to go away as a class… Spend the money on FFX and move on. The U.S. Navy hopes to boost the number of days the littoral combat ship is operational by targeting the drivers of down time: design … Continue reading
The Navy has come to its senses in design… The U.S. Navy’s next-generation frigate, the Constellation class, is a do-or-die effort for the service and a critical test of its return to building ships around existing technologies rather than designing them … Continue reading
SECDEF is making some moves in conjunction with the Navy to move forward on the shipbuilding front… And it’s NOT LCS!!! The RFI states that one of the FFG(X)’s two main purposes is to “relieve large surface combatants from stressing … Continue reading
That was interesting… Not only are we going to put troops back into Afghanistan, but Pakistan has also been put on notice. President Trump is listening to the folks that do warfighting, rather than the media pundits, or being driven … Continue reading
Are coming home to roost… One has to wonder what is going on inside the U.S. Navy. A recent survey of U.S. Navy personnel delivered sobering news to out-going Obama Navy leadership. In arresting phrases, the September 2016 survey found … Continue reading
It’s time for the Littoral Combat Ship, better known in the Navy as the Little Crappy Ship to be a thing of the past… The Yemeni rebel’s attack on the MV Swift last week should be making people stop and … Continue reading
This one is ‘really’ not a surprise, but it still sucks for the Navy…From the UT San Diego- The California Coastal Commission has roundly rejected the U.S. Navy’s sonar program, saying that what the Navy sees as its “theater” — … Continue reading
Bet you haven’t seen THIS in any of the MSM have you??? Thank you Mr. Rumsfeld… By Lisa M. Novak, Stars and Stripes, June 15, 2010 NAPLES, Italy — The Navy’s personnel cuts over the past decade went too far … Continue reading