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5 days ago · Headlines. Coast Guard Cutter Reliance Returns Home to Florida After 60-day Operation Vigilant Sentry Patrol - From U.S. Coast Guard Atlantic Area, Nov. 7, 2024 PENSACOLA, Fla. — The crew of Coast Guard Cutter Reliance (WMEC 615) returned to their home port in Pensacola, Oct. 28, following a 60-day patrol in the Windward Passage.
Navy’s Second Ford CVN to Join the U.S. Pacific Fleet
Nov 28, 2023 · MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 11, 2023) The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) refuels from the underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 11, 2023. The second Ford-class CVN, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), will become a unit of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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SURFACE WARFARE: The Nucleus of American Naval Power
Jan 9, 2024 · SURFACE WARFARE: The Nucleus of American Naval Power. Posted on January 9, 2024 by Bryan McGrath, Contributing Writer. 190711-N-PJ626-5159 CORAL SEA (July 11, 2019) U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, Australian Navy, Canadian Navy and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force ships sail together in formation during Talisman Sabre 2019 . …
Something Special: U.S. SOCOM Continues to Modernize Its
Aug 31, 2020 · The largest craft in Special Warfare Command’s fleet is the combatant craft-heavy, or SEALION — for SEAL insertion, observation and neutralization. The 40-ton, 80-foot low-profile craft, built by Vigor Works, is semi-submersible. NAVAL SPECIAL WARFARE COMMAND. The first two SEALIONs entered service with SOCOM in 2014.
Pentagon Assessment: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy
Sep 1, 2020 · A Chinese Type 052C destroyer, the Changchun, in Malaysia in 2017. ARLINGTON, Va. — The People’s Republic of China, increasing its two-decade military buildup, now has the world’s largest navy, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s latest annual assessment of China’s military capabilities. The Pentagon’s 2020 report to Congress ...
Defender-Europe 21 Exercise Tests Ability to Move Military Might ...
May 5, 2021 · The vessel was bound for the Defender-Europe 21 linked exercise. U.S. ARMY / Kimberly Spinner. A major U.S.-led multi-national exercise in Europe is testing America’s ability to move troops, cargo and vehicles overseas to support NATO and partner nations. Defender-Europe is an annual, large-scale U.S. Army Europe and Africa-led, multinational ...
Kings Bay to be First Sub Base Ready for Navy’s Columbia
Oct 3, 2019 · ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy’s submarine base in Kings Bay, Georgia, will be the first base to be readied for the Navy’s new Columbia-class ballistic-missile submarine (SSBN), a Navy admiral said. “Kings Bay will come first, so that [construction] will be in [the] 2023 to 2025 period,” Rear Adm. John W. Korka, commander of Naval ...
With SPY-6, Navy Has Radar to Match the Range of its Missiles
ARLINGTON, Va. — The SPY-6 air and missile defense radar, the first of which has been installed on a guided-missile destroyer, will give the Navy a sensor worthy of its long-range Standard SM-3 Block IIA surface missiles, Raytheon officials said. Briefing reporters April 1, Ken Spurlock, Raytheon’s Strategic Missile Defense Requirements ...
America’s Largest Port Home to Mighty Surface Warship USS Iowa
Feb 27, 2020 · The Port of Los Angeles waterfront in San Pedro is home to the Pacific Battleship Center (PBC) and Battleship Iowa (BB 61) Museum. With its 16-inch guns, Tomahawk missiles and other weapons, the 45,000-ton Iowa was once a forceful and imposing instrument of “battleship diplomacy.”. Even moored as a museum, Iowa still conveys a powerful ...