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
The report is out on the USS Bonhomme Richard ship fire… The Navy’s command investigation into the fire that destroyed the amphibious assault ship Bonhomme Richard last summer stresses that failures to fight the fire lay across several commands and leadership levels. … Continue reading
Sigh…this truly ISN’T my Navy anymore… Under the Navy’s new Departure & Separation Program, sailors on six surface ships were provided access to licensed counselors and specially trained educators during their first two to six weeks of deployment. Full article, … Continue reading
It’s an electronic one, but still… A key tool in the U.S. Navy’s fight against Russian and Chinese submarines weighs eight pounds, is three feet long and it doesn’t even explode. The sonobuoy is an expendable, waterborne sensor that has been air-dropped … Continue reading
ASW and ‘other’ missions have a long history, going back prior to WWII… These guys were the original lowriders… Not a lot of fun there, probably somewhere in the South Pacific, WWII era. I ‘believe’ there is a raft just … 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
Try, try, and try again… Turtle, USS Alligator, Intelligent Whale, Holland VI John Philip Holland, the man who developed the first true submarine accepted by U.S. Navy (spending 57 of his 74 years working with submersibles), was born in Liscannor, County … Continue reading
Paintings… And space operations… Artists were usually aboard the ships that performed the water recoveries of the US space capsules, which landed in the water, as opposed to the Russian ones which land on the ground. A graduate of the … Continue reading
This week is something a bit different… The Mosquito Fleet, AKA PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats. Specifically the WWII variants. The original concept goes back to the 1890s, then called Torpedo Boats. In WWI, the Brits designed what they called Motor … Continue reading
1937-2017… 80 years of maritime patrol squadrons is ending this week… In a way, it’s fitting that it’s ending what started at in 1937 with Fleet Air Wing 2 and ends with Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing 2 as the bookends. … Continue reading