How Militaries Are Using Unmanned Surface Vehicles, From Mine Hunting to Submarine Tracking
Unmanned surface vehicles are no longer experimental. Navies around the world are deploying USVs for everything from min...
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The Zumwalt-Class Destroyer: What It Is, Why It's Controversial, and What It Becomes Next
The Zumwalt-class destroyer is the most expensive and arguably the most futuristic warship the US Navy has ever built. B...
USS Gerald Ford Problems: Why the Navy's Most Expensive Carrier Keeps Falling Short
The USS Gerald Ford was supposed to be the future of American naval power. Instead it became a cautionary tale about ove...
The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System Explained: What It Did, Why It Mattered, and What Comes Next
The AN/SEQ-3 Laser Weapon System (LaWS) was the U.S. Navy's first operationally deployed directed-energy weapon. Here's...
Northrop Grumman's F-18 Successor: What the F/A-XX 6th Gen Fighter Actually Means for the Navy
The Navy's F/A-XX program is the most contested and underfunded major weapons program in recent U.S. history. Here's wha...
How US Navy Carrier Battle Group Doctrine Actually Works, and Why It Still Dominates Modern Naval Strategy
The US Navy carrier battle group is the most powerful conventional military formation on earth, but how it actually oper...