Naval Stories
Centennial of Naval Aviation: Carriers at War
By Dwight Jon Zimmerman in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, History, Print Edition with no comments
For almost seventy years, the pre-eminent symbol of a nation’s sea power has been the aircraft carrier. Today nine nations are members of the aircraft carrier fraternity (with China presumably about to become ...more »
Naval Aviation Centennial: Aircraft Carrier Evolution
By Norman Friedman in Naval under Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 3 comments
The George H.W. Bush is the current chapter in a carrier story which began almost a century ago, in November 1910, when an intrepid aviator named Eugene “George” Ely flew off the deck ...more »
Standard Oil: The Navy’s Fuels and Lubricants Lab Explores New Fuel Resources
By Eric Tegler in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured with no comments
There’s a lot of work ahead if the U.S. Navy is to ply global blue waters unfettered by energy concerns in the 21st century. Navy researchers expect global fuel production to peak in ...more »
The State of U.S. Sealift
By J.R. Wilson in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 1 comment
Since the first ship put to sea thousands of years ago, sealift has been the primary method used to move large amounts of materiel and large numbers of warfighters into a combat theater. ...more »
Sea-based Missile Defense: Ready Now
By Clarence A. Robinson Jr. in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 2 comments
Dramatic surface fleet changes are under way as the U.S. Navy moves to boost the numbers of multimission Aegis cruisers and destroyers. Meeting growing mission demands, the sea service is simultaneously harnessing technical ...more »
Littoral Combat Ship: Concepts and End Products
By Norman Friedman in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 1 comment
Both competing prototypes of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) are now complete, and as of spring 2010, the U.S. Navy planned to choose one or the other for further production. The force goal ...more »
Interview: Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby, Commander, Military Sealift Command
By J.R. Wilson in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
The Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) is the primary resource for short-term, immediate sealift requirements for both combat and humanitarian/relief missions by the U.S. military. MSC operates approximately 110 noncombatant, civilian-crewed ships that ...more »
Going Electric
By Norman Friedman in Naval under Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with 3 comments
The new Zumwalt-class destroyer is described as an “electric ship.” The next-generation carrier is more “electric” by far than any predecessor. Probably the same will be true of the coming cruiser. There has ...more »
Barring the Door: Three Different Anti-access Approaches
By Norman Friedman in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured, Print Edition with no comments
Sometimes the U.S. Navy says that its role is often to “kick in the door” – to gain access to places we want to influence, which do not want us. The U.S. Navy ...more »
Navy “Assessing Alternatives” After Army Cancels NLOS-LS
By Scott R. Gourley in Naval under Defense Issues, Defense Technology, Featured with 5 comments
On May 13, 2010, the Department of Defense announced that it authorized the Army to cancel the Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System (NLOS-LS) and transition management responsibilities for system development and acquisition from the old ...more »
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