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The Navy had not expected to mothball the battleships so soon after modernization. 

>> john: let's bring in senator, cotton. senator, this is alarming to hear. is this really the case? is there a major question whether the u.s. navy is ready for battle? >> i believe that the surface navy, i would destroyers and other surface combatant shifts need a cultural change. some of this goes back 30 years to the fall of the soviet union and the loss of a competitor on the seas. this report is not coming for me or my counterpart in the house. it it is coming from sailors. it is coming from the sailors and their chiefs and their junior officers. in some case, commanding officers who hav...

Article content In a recent op-ed in this paper, I outlined how a distorted procurement process led to a ten-fold increase in costs, from $26 billion to $286 billion, for 15 Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) ships for the Royal Canadian Navy. There isan obvious follow-up question — where were the red flags that should have alerted the government to these escalating costs? Allow me to suggest three fundamental failings and to recommend solutions. First, our inability to ask the right question. Last year, the Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates requested that the Office o...

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and Rolls-Royce signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Tuesday to establish a support system in India for the highly regarded Rolls-Royce MT30 marine engines. The HAL-Rolls-Royce partnership will provide packaging, installation, marketing and services support for the MT30 engine, creating a business case for the Indian Navy to consider using the engine for powering and propelling its warships. The Indian Navy, one of the world’s major warship builders, has not used the MT30 for even a single warship. Most Indian frigates and destroyers are propelle...

autoevolution 24 Apr 2021, 5:15 UTC · by The Royal Canadian Navy’s newest Surface Combatant is about to get even more powerful, by integrating a top-of-the-range missile system. Designed to bring top-notch technology for maritime application, the Sea Ceptor is just as cool and fierce as it sounds. 6 photos Lockheed Martin Canada awarded MBDA, a missile systems developer, a contract to integrate the Sea Ceptor weapon system on the new Canadian surface combatant (CSC). A ship-based air defense weapon system, Sea Ceptor is designed to provide a high level of protection against various ...