New York Times – The Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy’s 12 aircraft carriers – the USS John F. Kennedy, buy fewer amphibious landing ships for the Marine Corps and delay the development of a costly Army combat system of high-tech arms as part of $60 billion in proposed cuts over the next six years, Congressional and military officials said Wednesday.
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Category Archives: USNavy
US Navy – San Diego-based Navy ships on way to help tsunami victims
San Diego Union Tribune – The USS Bon Homme Richard and Expeditionary Strike Group 5 as well as the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Battlegroup are on their way to the Indian Ocean to aid in disaster relief.
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US Navy – United Defense's Mk110 Gun To Arm LCS and New Destroyer
SeaPower – Naval news from around the industry.
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US Navy – Navy providing some help to countries hit by tidal wave — may provide more
Associated Press – The US Navy says all of its ships and other assets survived south Asia’s killer tsunami with no significant damage.The closest US base to the affected area is on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The base emerged unscathed.
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US Navy – Navy Relieves 80 Commanders Over 5 Years
Associated Press – The Navy has relieved at least 80 commanding officers for performance problems since 1999, a number that includes a recent spike attributed to inappropriate personal behavior by about two dozen officers, Navy officials said Wednesday.
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US Navy – Navy Leaders Push Simulator-Based Training
SeaPower – As a solution to the inter-locking challenges of maintaining a high readiness rate while have less access to real world training opportunities, Navy officials said, are the rapidly improving high-tech simulators that provide realistic training in individual, team and even battle-group skills, tactics and decision-making ó at greatly reduced costs.
US Navy – Destroyer Williams joins fleet, bearing latest technology
Virginian Pilot – Aboard the destroyer USS James E. Williams, which has a robotic mine-hunting system that uses a small, unmanned submersible, like a tiny submarine, to scan the water for floating bombs.
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US Navy – For four subs, it's goodbye ballistic missiles, hello SEALs
Virginian Pilot – Aboard the USS Georgia, which is about to be converted from ballistic missile submarine to special operations submarine.
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US Navy – Over Iraq, Pilots Fly Into Action When Troops Call for Help
Washington Post – A look at the close air support assets available to US forces on the ground in Iraq.
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US Navy – Only Highly Trained Need Apply in Navy's 'New World' of Optimal Manning
SeaPower – For decades, sailors newly assigned to a Navy ship could expect to ease into the job, getting trained before they actually started work. Five years from now, many sailors will have trained themselves and be ready to work immediately.
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US Navy – Piercing the Depths: Is man-made noise driving whales from sea to shore?
Virginian Pilot – A detailed look at the sonar / whale controversy.
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US Navy – Truman aircraft used in attack on insurgent locations in Iraq
Virginian Pilot – Aircraft from the USS Harry S. Truman are flying combat missions over Iraq.
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US Navy – Small Company Races For Place On Navy's New Ship Program
SeaPower – The effort to develop and build the Navyís novel Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is a classic clash of industrial titans. To foster competition and restrain costs, the serviceís ship procurement chiefs have pitted teams of contractors headed by Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics in a contest for possibly $12 billion in orders and a major foothold in the world market for advanced shallow-water warships. Out of the limelight, however, a lesser-known contest is shaping up that over the long term could prove vital to the Navy. Small companies are racing to win a spot on the LCS, bringing with them innovations in technologies such as power systems, communications and intuitive software.
US Navy – Northrop Grumman's Global Hawk Prepares for Navy Demo
Sea Power – Naval news from around the fleet.
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US Navy – Boeing Converts 737 Into Bomber
Wired – A look at Boeing’s new Multi-Mission Maritime Aircraft.
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US Navy – Adm. Fallon: 'We Are on Our Way to a New Navy'
Sea Power – The view from the Commander, Fleet Forces Command.
US Navy – Lockheed Martin Expands Missions for Littoral Craft Concept
Sea Power – Lockheed Martin has expanded yet again the missions proposed for its Covert High-Speed Attack & Reconnaissance Craft (CHARC). Originally envisioned primarily as a surface warfare platform, Lockheed has added the support of Special Operations Forces and, subsequently, littoral antisubmarine warfare and mine countermeasures to its repertoire. An unmanned version also is under consideration.
US Navy – US spy plane spotted flying along Russian border
Kazinform – A US P-3 Orion has been intercepted off of Russia.
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US Navy – Navy Unit Discovers Perils In Task of Rebuilding Fallujah
Washington Post – With the SeaBees in Fallujah.
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US Navy – Ohio Subs Would Be Best Basing Mode for New Interceptor Missile
Sea Power – The U.S. ballistic-missile defense system will be significantly enhanced with the deployment of the new Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) being developed to intercept hostile missiles in the boost and midcourse phases of attack. The KEI is a large missile, which is necessary for it to develop the acceleration and speed needed by the missile defense system.
US Marines – Marines Deliver in Mountain Storm
US Naval Institute Proceedings – In its deployment to Afghanistan earlier this year, the 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) highlighted the contributions Marine air- ground task forces make to joint commands and validated the effectiveness of hard predeployment training.
US Navy – Navy Pursues SM-6 as Defense Against Cruise Missile Threats
Sea Power – The global proliferation of cruise missiles, predicted widely after Operation Desert Storm, has yet to materialize. But the lack of an immediate threat is not stopping the U.S. Navy from updating measures to counter antiship missiles as well as land-attack cruise missiles.
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US Navy – As Missile-Defense System Deploys, Some Eye Directed-Energy Options
Sea Power – Twenty-one years after President Ronald Reagan jarred the world with his notion of an omnibus $26 billion missile-defense program, the U.S. military services are deploying the first elements of a planned multilayered defense scheme intended to protect the United States, some allies and forces on the battlefield from missile attack.
US Navy – Local jets are flying over Iraq at same pace as start of war
Virginian Pilot – Planes from the carrier John F. Kennedy are flying combat missions over Iraq at the same pace as they did during the start of the war a year and a half ago.
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US Navy – England Charts a Careful Course Through Political Fire
Sea Power – When the U.S. Navy had a fleet of 485 ships, it typically deployed 98 vessels. Today, it has less than 300 ships, but regularly deploys 92. “So we really have changed a lot,” said Navy Secretary Gordon R. England. “We’re doing much better with what we have. In fact, we surge now more than we ever did.”
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