Meet five outstanding platforms.
Here s What You Need to Know: The Navy is currently on the cusp of a technological revolution.
The United States Navy is the largest and most advanced navy in the world, fielding everything from aircraft carriers and maritime patrol aircraft to submarines, destroyers and unmanned helicopters.
So when your editor asks you to choose the Navy’s five most lethal weapons systems, your most difficult challenge is trying to narrow it down to just five selections.
For this article I bypassed the larger platforms such as the aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships. To be sure, those are actually the most lethal weapons in the Navy’s arsenal, however, everybody knows them, and, as big platforms, they are actually the sum of many smaller ones.
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Consider it the military’s version of speed to market.
Military agencies are adopting some of the same software development techniques that commercial tech companies use to innovate and iterate quickly. And, they’re doing it not to boost sales, but to stay ahead of attacks that move faster than anything in the history of warfare.
“You don’t want to be deployed to the middle of the ocean and learn that there’s a new threat you aren’t prepared for,” said retired U.S. Navy Capt. Steve Lott, a former commanding officer of the guided missile cruisers USS Vincennes (CG-49) and USS Chosin (CG-65), and now a director of requirements and capabilities at Raytheon Missiles & Defense.
Australia’s Most Advanced Warships Demonstrate Missile Firing Technology
The Royal Australian Navy has demonstrated the cutting edge cooperative missile-firing warfare technology of its three Hobart Class Destroyers in an exercise off Australia’s east coast.
As stability in the Indo-Pacific is threatened by the aggressive expansion of the Chinese regime’s regional military ambitions, Australia has been moving swiftly to sure up its defence capabilities and cooperation with regional allies.
The Navy’s HMAS Hobart, Brisbane, Sydney together for the first time conducted the recent joint tests, trials, and exercises to increase maritime security and stability in the region.