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Move Over Aluminum: Why the U.S. Navy is Turning to Steel Ships The Navy knows that the dawn of a new and more agile 500-ship fleet starts in the shipyard.  It is a well-known paradox: In order to prepare for peace, prepare for massive maritime warfare with heavily armed surface ships, long-range weapons, and layered defenses. This is the conceptual basis for deterrence, a strategic approach grounded in the idea of strengthening military power for the ultimate purpose of preventing conflict on the open ocean.  With this in mind, the Navy is taking new strides in its ongoing, multi-year ambi...

Why Navy Aircraft Carriers (Now Armed with F-35s) Aren't Going Anywhere Upgraded anti-missile defenses and long-range refueler drones could let current aircraft carriers, and the more important emerging Ford-class, continue fighting despite modern threats. U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are said to be extremely vulnerable to modern missile attacks, since they represent huge floating targets that are less agile and mobile in high threat circumstances. In fact, some commentators have gone so far as to wonder if recently emerging long range anti-ship missiles may have rendered aircraft carriers obs...

Oorah: Why the Marines' New Light Amphibious Warship Is the Future The new warships will help move the Marines quickly through the Indo-Pacific and allow them to set up island fire bases to strike from a distance. The Marine Corps is preparing for a new kind of heavily-armed, island-hopping type of hybrid amphibious warfare using a now emerging class of Light Amphibious Warships (LAW) intended to transport weapons, forces and supplies to dispersed and potentially small land areas throughout the Indo-Pacific. “The Marine Corps has a very good operational concept about how that would work, es...

Why You Should Trust Drone Ships and Unmanned Tech, According to the Navy Sea Hunter, an entirely new class of unmanned sea surface vehicle developed in partnership between the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (U.S. Navy photo) 16 Mar 2021 Navy and Marine Corps leaders have produced a new 40-page "campaign plan" to better explain to Congress, the public and even members of their own forces why unmanned ships and aircraft are not to be feared. The Navy Department's Unmanned Campaign Framework was published Tuesday, two days before top le...

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