Iraqi Navy 60-meter Offshore Support Vessel (OSV 401) Completes Underway Trials
The first of two RiverHawk Fast Sea Frames (RHFSF) Offshore Support Vessels (OSVs) being built for the Iraqi navy completed …
Naval Forces
First F-35C Night Flight
Lockheed Martin recently released this video of the F-35C’s first night flight. The very noticeable cutouts in the big wings …
Damage Control Training Makes Sailors Feel The Heat
For sailors on a fighting ship, fire is not a friend. But don’t be alarmed. Shipboard damage control training ensures …
Knifefish Mine-hunting UUV to Begin Operational Testing in 2015
“Knifefish provides capability that we don’t have with UUVs today,” said Capt. Duane Ashton, a program manager for unmanned maritime …
Naval Missiles Today
The state of the art (SOTA) in naval missiles, as with so many other military systems, is not a simple …
Shipboard Firefighting Robots Being Developed
The new $17.2 million Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, D.C., is …
Can the Indian Navy Get the New Warships It Wants, When It Wants Them?
The Indian Navy’s ongoing recapitalization program is guided by its 15-year Maritime Capability Perspective Plan (MCPP) which calls for a …
The Battle of Midway: The Sole Survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8
Then-Ensign George Gay, U.S. Navy Reserve, was the pilot of one of the 15 Douglas TBD-1 Devastators of Torpedo Squadron …
Battle of Midway: Black Shoe Admirals in a Brown Shoe Battle
One of the great ironies of the Battle of Midway is that the most pivotal naval air battle in history …
Indian Navy Force Structure Development Is Driven by Blue Water Maritime Strategy
The 96,000 strong Indian Navy (IN) has a fleet of 134 or so commissioned ships – a figure that is …