Combat Fleets News Today

This month’s focus on international navies brings the ongoing war in Ukraine and tensions in the Indo-Pacific—and others issues—to the fore.

Aircraft carriers are by far the most difficult ships to crew, particularly the ship’s engineering and aviation sections.

The Bush Administration's National Strategy for Homeland Securityidentified six critical mission areas to focus federal efforts onthe objectives of preventing terrorist attacks, reducing America'svulnerabilities to terrorism, and minimizing the damage andrecovering from attacks that do occur. An analysis of spendingpriorities suggests that most of the proposed major programs fallinto one of the six critical mission areas. It is not clear,however, that in every case the level of resourc...

Officials say Taiwan needs to become a “porcupine” with enough weapons to hold out if the Chinese military blockades and invades it, even if Washington decides to send troops.

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The ships are powered by two diesel generators and an electric drive, giving them enough power to make ten knots at the surface and seventeen knots underwater.

Israel's ace in the hole.

The most survivable arm of the nuclear triad is typically the sea-based one, consisting of nuclear-armed submarines.

NIMROD (nim rod) HEBREW: NIMROD _______________ The son of Cush, Nimrod was the grandson of Noahs son Ham. Nimrod ruled in Mesopotamia after the Floo...

Australia, India and others are rushing to buy a passenger plane-sized submarine killer called the P-8 Poseidon, which one senior Pentagon official calls "the best answer to countering Chinese