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Coast Guard Cutter Stratton Returns Home Following 110-day Arctic Deployment - From U.S. Coast Guard Pacific Area, Nov. 15, 2024 ALAMEDA, Calif. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Stratton (WMSL 752) returned to its Alameda homeport on Nov. 4, after completing a 110-day patrol in the Arctic Ocean, Chukchi Sea and Bering Sea.
Navy’s Second Ford CVN to Join the U.S. Pacific Fleet
Nov 28, 2023 · MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 11, 2023) The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) refuels from the underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 11, 2023. The second Ford-class CVN, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), will become a unit of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Marine Infantry to Become More Commando-Like - Seapower
May 12, 2022 · Responding to direction from Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger, “we’re going to make our infantry Marines more like (Army) Rangers, more commando-like,” said Maj. Gen. Julian Alford, commanding general of Training Command. To prepare for that change, Alford said he and his staff visited the 75th Ranger Regiment, who are designed ...
Naval Surface Warfare Center Implements Navy Continuous …
Nov 16, 2021 · The Navy Continuous Training Environment (NCTE) enables live virtual constructive (LVC) training with live and synthetic systems around the globe.
Pentagon Assessment: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy
Sep 1, 2020 · A Chinese Type 052C destroyer, the Changchun, in Malaysia in 2017. ARLINGTON, Va. — The People’s Republic of China, increasing its two-decade military buildup, now has the world’s largest navy, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s latest annual assessment of China’s military capabilities. The Pentagon’s 2020 report to Congress ...
Something Special: U.S. SOCOM Continues to Modernize Its
Aug 31, 2020 · The largest craft in Special Warfare Command’s fleet is the combatant craft-heavy, or SEALION — for SEAL insertion, observation and neutralization. The 40-ton, 80-foot low-profile craft, built by Vigor Works, is semi-submersible. NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COMMAND. The first two SEALIONs entered service with SOCOM in 2014.
Kings Bay to be First Sub Base Ready for Navy’s Columbia
Oct 3, 2019 · ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy’s submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, will be the first base to be readied for the Navy’s new Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN), a Navy admiral said. “Kings Bay will come first, so that [construction] will be in [the] 2023 to 2025 period,” Rear Adm. John W. Korka, commander of Naval ...
Navy Orders Two Hellfire SSMM Systems for LCS - Seapower
Nov 23, 2020 · The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Northrop Grumman Systems Corp. a 10.7 million firm-fixed-price contract modification for two additional SSMM systems for delivery by November 2022, a Nov. 20 Defense Department contract announcement said. The SSMM is a modular weapons system that fires Lockheed Martin-built AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire ...
The Navy’s Shrinking Patrol Boat Force - Seapower
Jun 2, 2021 · The current plan is to procure a total of 120 40-foot PBs over the next 10 years [to replace the 34-foot and 25-foot PBs].”. The Navy also has ordered 24 Force Protection-Medium (FP-M) patrol boats from Lake Assault Boats LLC, which was awarded a contract for up to 119 FP-Ms in February 2020. The 33-foot-long aluminum V-hull boats will be ...
Navy Orders Tomahawk Cruise Missiles for Marine Corps, Army
Raytheon Missiles and Defense, of Tucson, Arizona, was awarded a $217.1 million fixed-price-incentive, firm-fixed-price contract for 154 full-rate production Block V Tactical Tomahawk All-Up Round Vertical Launch System missiles, including 70 for the Navy, 54 for the Marine Corps, and 30 for the Army, the Defense Department said May 24.