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December 14, 2020

Future Navy drone boats will get advanced weapons and radar

A large, armed, surface-patrolling, submarine-hunting unmanned vessel, operating in a distributed capacity teamed with manned combatants and ops centers, launches a small fleet of autonomous drone boats well forward in the fight to counterattack newly discovered enemy missile launch facilities at previously undetectable ranges … made possible by a new generation of highly-sensitive, discriminating ship-based radar technology.

December 13, 2020

Navy arms first new Flight III destroyer with next-gen weapons

Laser weapons, electronic warfare, long-range precision-strike weapons, and over-the-horizon missile attacks are but merely a few of the expanded maritime warfare mission sets planned for the U.S. Navy’s new fleet of DDG 51 Flight III destroyers, a new class of warship intended to propel the service’s ability to wage massive war on the open seas. 

December 11, 2020

Aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt conducts 'man overboard' search for missing sailor

The USS Theodore Roosevelt is looking for a "possible" man overboard in the Pacific.

December 9, 2020

US Marines can now attack from aircraft carriers with F-35C stealth fighters

Amphibious assaults, coordinated air-ground-sea strikes and dismounted individual ground attacks are all indispensable components of the Marine Corps’ mission capabilities.

December 8, 2020

Navy wants to go 'way faster' adding laser weapons to warships

Ship-fired laser weapons incinerate, destroy and surveil enemy targets at sea at quickly increasing ranges, inspiring Navy weapons developers to fast-track a growing sphere of directed energy weapons for surface ships.

December 2, 2020

Navy littoral combat ship is now armed for attack with Hellfire missiles

Should enemy helicopters, surveillance planes or armed drones be maneuvering to attack while circling above a U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship at seemingly unreachable ranges for the ship’s deck-mounted guns, commanders might be challenged to identify the best, fastest and most effective method to counterattack.

November 22, 2020

Navy destroyers might kill hypersonic missile attacks

Having a Navy destroyer able to take out ICBMs is a development that radically impacts strategic and tactical dynamics associated with missile defense in a way that multiplies defenses in unprecedented ways.

November 17, 2020

Future Navy attack submarine for 2030 - bigger, more lethal, stealthier

The Navy’s future attack submarines for the 2030s will be bigger, faster, more autonomous, networked and stealthier than the existing Virginia-class attack boats because greater size will allow for more advanced quieting technologies to be built into the boats.

November 12, 2020

New Army weapons program ground-fires Navy Tomahawk, SM-6

It can loiter over targets while sending back video through a two-way data link. It can destroy targets from ranges out to 900 miles. And now, it can adjust course in flight to destroy moving targets … the Tomahawk missile, often the first weapon to strike in combat, will now be fired as a land weapon.

November 11, 2020

Pentagon to arm F/A-18 Super Hornet with hypersonic missiles

Could arming the F/A-18 Super Hornet with hypersonic missiles keep the aircraft relevant for the next decade or two as larger numbers of F-35s arrive and the service prepares for stealthy, highly networked, 5th-Gen empowered, longer-range war?