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The US Navy's Dual-Band Radar that equips its forthcoming Gerald R. Ford class super-carriers replaces several different radars with a single back-end. Merging Raytheon's X-band SPY-3 with Lockheed Martin's S-band VSR allows fewer radar antennas,
The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group has completed its Group Sail in preparation for an upcoming deployment, featuring cross-functional training across multiple domains to increase lethality and tactical proficiency.
By Captain John Konrad (OpEd) How can you help Cato dismantle the Jones Act and undermine American shipping? How can you subvert crucial US Navy shipbuilding subsidies? How can you...
Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge)Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy's idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet. Inspired by successful
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.