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What was Sweden thinking?

It's all part of the Navy’s ongoing surge to arm its surface fleet with up-gunned mine-hunting, submarine-attacking Littoral Combat Ships armed with guns, drones, mini-sub-hunting undersea drones, and missiles, something which continues to quietly surge along beneath the radar of a large variety of pressing Navy topics at the moment. 

Alabama ship builder gets Navy contract to develop autonomous prototype by   The "312 Room" on an Expeditionary Fast Transport built by Austal USA has accommodations for 312 passengers. (Lawrence Specker, al.com/TNS) (Tribune News Service) — Austal USA announced Wednesday that it has received a $44 million contract to develop one of its Expeditionary Fast Transports as an autonomous prototype. The U.S. Navy contract applies to EPF-13, the future USNS Apalachicola, a ship that is already u...

During a war game, a Swedish, diesel-powered submarine sunk an entire aircraft carrier...undetected. 

Pentagon budget 2022: Aegis Ashore requests USD43.2 million, Polish construction delays continue by Daniel Wasserbly The US Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA’s) Aegis Ashore missile interceptor system is slated to receive USD43.2 million in fiscal year 2022 (FY 2022) to develop improvements, support operations in Romania, and finish construction at a site in Poland. MDA said in FY 2022 it would “continue High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse Combat System hardening in Romania”, and that a lo...

Northrop Grumman Testing MQ-8C Expeditionary Controls for Marine, Navy Missions May 25, 2021 7:10 PM Maintainers from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) analyze diagnostics from the MQ-8C Fire Scout on the flight deck of the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) on June 21, 2018. US Navy photo Northrop Grumman is testing a portable expeditionary control station that could help sailors and Marines operate the Navy’s unmanned helicopter from both at sea and ashor...

BAE System to Re-Design Mechanical Portion Mk 41 Vertical Launch System Our Bureau 573 Mk 41 Vertical Launch System BAE Systems has won a U.S. Navy competition to serve as the design agent for the mechanical portion of the Mk 41 Vertical Launch System (VLS). The contract calls for BAE Systems to provide design, development, test, product improvement, and sustaining support for current and legacy VLS systems. BAE Systems will also continue to design and support canisters used to store, transpo...

The canisters play a critical role for storing, transporting and firing offensive and defensive missiles. May 12th, 2021 BAE Systems BAE Systems has been awarded a $76 million contract modification to produce additional Vertical Launch System (VLS) canisters for the U.S. Navy. Work on the contract modification will be performed at the BAE Systems production facility in Aberdeen, South Dakota, through 2023, with engineering and program support in Minneapolis. The new modification will allow BAE...

In 2005, USS Ronald Reagan, a newly constructed $6.2 billion dollar aircraft carrier, sank after being hit by multiple torpedoes. This first appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest. Fortunately, this did not occur in actual combat, but was simulated as part of a war game pitting a carrier task force including numerous antisubmarine escorts against HSMS Gotland, a small Swedish diesel-powered submarine displacing 1,600 tons. Yet despite making multiple attacks runs on the...

BAE Systems to Manufacture Vertical Launch Canisters for U.S. Navy Foreign Customers Our Bureau 437 BAE Systems has won a $76 million contract modification to produce additional Vertical Launch System (VLS) canisters for the U.S. Navy and its allies. The canisters play a critical role for storing, transporting, and firing a range of offensive and defensive missiles from the deck of the Navy’s guided-missile cruisers and destroyers. Under the contract now totaling $306 million, BAE Systems w...