Virginian Pilot – The helicopter the Navy has been trying to get rid of for a decade finally has retired, after 40 years of not only moving troops and cargo but rescuing hundreds of downed sailors and aviators. The last two Navy CH-46D Sea Knight helicopters, assigned to Helicopter Combat support Squadron Eight, made their final flights Thursday at Norfolk Naval Station. The entire line is being replaced by the newer MH-60S Night Hawk series of helicopters.
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Category Archives: USNavy
US Navy – New Command Will Unify Navy's Maritime Force Protection Units
Sea Power – Force protection has been a hot issue for the U.S. Navy since the terrorist bombing of the destroyer USS Cole in 2000 and the beginning of the global war on terrorism. The subsequent buildup of the Navyís force protection units and weapons will culminate next month with the establishment of a new fleet-wide command to bring them under a single umbrella.
US Navy – Electric Drive for DD(X) Sparks Competition Over Exotic Motors
Sea Power – One of the keys to success in the U.S. Navyís pursuit of an integrated power system (IPS), or electric drive, for its future surface combatants is development of an electric motor that packs much more power in a much smaller machine than has ever gone to sea.
US Navy – Navy to shut down sub radio transmitters
Associated Press – The Navy is shutting down its extremely low frequency communication system used for communicating with submarines.
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US Navy – Giambastiani: Change in Culture Key to Joint Transformation
Sea Power – An interview with Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr, who wears two hats as the NATO Supreme Allied Commander, Transformation, and Commander, Joint Forces Command.
US Navy – Training is touch-and-go around Oceana
Virginian Pilot – A look at the problems the US Navy faces in providing realistic jet training for its pilots.
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US Navy – Experimentation Is the Way to Transformation
US Naval Institute Proceedings – In the research-and-development playpen of the 1950s, do you think they had a clue about the probable life-cycle cost of an envisioned system or could explain where it would fit in the force for the next 30 years? Are you kidding?
US Navy – Four ships with 2,700 sailors will return Friday and Saturday
Virginian Pilot – The USS Wasp Expeditionary Strike Group will return this week from a seven-month deployment in the Gulf.
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US Navy – Industry Adapts Outdoor Gear Technology to Flight Clothing
Sea Power – News from around the defense industry.
US Navy – Darpa Readies UCAR Downselect
Aviation Week and Space Technology – The US Navy is beginning to show an interest in unmanned combat armed rotorcraft.
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US Navy – Navy Puts Aegis Ballistic Missile Defenses On Alert in Pacific – Antimissile Force to Comprise 18 Ships by End of 2006 as Part of 'Layered Defense'
Sea Power – A look at the Aegis ballistic missile defense system and how it will be deployed in the Pacific.
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US Navy – Admiral disputes claim of disunity in Afghanistan planning
Virginian Pilot – Was the planning for Afghanistan not so joint afterall?
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US Navy – Navy hoping ''pre-sea swap'' prepares crews for ship switch
Virginian Pilot – When sailors were so disappointed with a new Navy program that they thought about quitting, service leaders apparently listened. The ìSea Swapî experiment, which essentially deploys ships for as long as two years while changing out its crews, will now be modified so that participants can get used to the idea before they ever leave their home port.
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US Navy – CNA Report on Sea Swap Exercises Gives Experiment Mixed Reviews
Sea Power – The U.S. Navyís Sea Swap experiment was ìclearly a success,î according to a new report about the program, with the ships involved maintaining a high level of readiness during the roughly 18-month study period. But the same report questions whether the savings offered by the swaps ó in funding and operations ó are worth the burden the program places on sailors in terms of work and quality of life.
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US Navy – Report questions timetable for Navy's new ship
Virginian Pilot – The Navy may be moving too quickly in the development of the next-generation DDX destroyer, relying on technologies that have yet to be fully proven, Congressional investigators warned Friday.
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US Navy – Deployment for three Norfolk-based ships cancelled
Virginian Pilot – The new Fleet Response Plan in action. In July, some 2,000 sailors thought they were heading overseas in August. In August , they heard they were leaving in September. Now theyíve been told there are no plans to go at all.
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US Navy – Sonar Used Before Whales Hit Shore
Washington Post – The Navy has acknowledged that vessels on maneuver off Hawaii last month used their sonar periodically in the 20 hours before a large pod of melon-headed whales unexpectedly came to shore in the area. The acknowledgement added to an already contentious debate over whether the sound from sonar has been causing marine mammals to strand.
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US Navy – Kennedy skipper loses job in wake of collision with Iraqi boat
Virginian Pilot – The captain of the carrier John F. Kennedy is to be relieved of his command today following an investigation into the shipís collision with a small Iraqi boat in the Persian Gulf.
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US Navy – US goes back to basics in its war on terrorism
Daily Telegraph – With the crew of Mobile Security Force Squadron Two.
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US Navy – Region to lose four ships as Navy shuffles its vessels
Virginian Pilot – The tenants at Norfolk Naval Base continue to change???
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US Navy – Ages apart, two subs return to Norfolk together
Virginian Pilot – The submarine USS Virginia is completing her sea trials.
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US Navy – L-3 Unit Sees Opportunity as ëSustainment Bridge' to MMA
Sea Power – The latest naval news around the defense industry.
US Navy – Submarine-hunt exercise takes four warships to sea
Virginian Pilot – A squadron of four warships leaves today for the coastal waters of the Carolinas, where the ships will hone their skills hunting submarines in Exercise Smart Search ’04.
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US Navy – SEALs Need Better Support from Naval Intelligence
US Naval Institute Proceedings – Do SEALs need better intelligence support?
US Navy – Navy may delay plans for new line of carrier
Virginian Pilot – The fate of CVN-21 could change as the Navy realigns its funding priorities over the next two years.
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