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The US Navy (USN) is striving to bolster the use of additive manufacturing (AM) in shipbuilding and ship repairs, according to Rear Admiral Jason Lloyd, chief engineer and deputy commander for Ship Design, Integration and Naval Engineering a...

More than one-third of the Navys attack submarines are out of service due to maintenance issues, posing a national security threat. Bartlett Maritime Corp. thinks it has a solution.

Additive manufacturing could build certain metal pieces more reliably, faster and in higher volume than traditional methods, Navy and industry leaders say.

An injured horse and a serendipitous encounter with a tour guide started Michael “Mischa” Steurer’s career

Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is seven miles below sea level in the Pacific Ocean, more than two miles above Everest.

The Navy is working to decouple software from hardware and is developing decision aids to support the Integrated Combat System.

The Navy’s next destroyer—the DDG(X)—will need to deliver this decade. Already there are indications that the Navy will delay the program over concerns of costs and misguided assumptions of limited shipyard capacity that threaten to delay the first ship in class until sometime next decade. Waiting until the 2030s for the DDG(X) incurs unacceptable risk for the United States due to the rapid aging of the current fleet and the trajectory of Chinese shipbuilding.

The argentine surrender. quite an interesting operation, quite apart from the weather. well, the ceasefire hadnt been signed up to this stage, and so the aircraft was flying into stanley, competing not with just the weather, but also some still rather unfriendly argentines around. his old sea king here was even flown in the falklands by prince andrew, then serving as a young naval pilot. theyre doing the flight servicing. in a hangar in southern england, a third sea king is being prepared forwar...

From invading argentine troops. its a wonderful aircraft — a hugely flexible aircraft, great capability. you can do almost anything with it. the man who flew this helicopter in the falklands said it played an historic role, taking the british general to port stanley to accept the argentine surrender. quite an interesting operation, quite apart from the weather. well, the ceasefire hadnt been signed up to this stage, and so the aircraft was flying into stanley, competing not with just the weath...

Reloading a vertical launching system is a challenging maneuver, given the crane must hold missile canisters vertically, while slowly lowering explosives.