F-35B Ship Suitability Testing
A new video with more amazing footage of F-35B shipboard suitability testing aboard USS Wasp (LHD 1) in October 2011. …
Naval Forces
Marines Seek Range and Precision Enhancement for EFSS
Marine Corps representatives will soon be receiving industry proposals for a new munition system designed to extend the range and …
Naval Ballistic Missile Defense
It has now been two decades since the U.S. Navy formally adopted the ballistic missile defense mission. For much of …
Force K Annihilates the Duisburg Convoy
“The ships seemed to make no effort to escape, and it was all too easy; they burst into flames as …
USMC Small Arms Developments
With the recent release of the fiscal year 2012 United States Marine Corps Posture Statement, Commandant of the Marine Corps …
Cpl. Dakota Meyer and the Battle of Ganjgal
“We will do to you what we did to the Russians!”
– Taliban insurgent leader transmission
At 0300 on Sept. …
Two F-35Bs Operate From USS Wasp
Two Marine Corps F-35B Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters operated from USS Wasp (LHD 1) for 18 days of sea …
Marine Corps Releases New Amphibious Vehicle RFI
The United States Marine Corps is continuing its search for an amphibious vehicle “that will provide increased force protection, water …
The Blue Angels: A 65 Year History
At the end of World War II, the Chief of Naval Operations, Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, ordered the formation …
Challenge in Transition
Of all the presentations at the 2011 Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space Exposition in Washington, D.C., perhaps the most interesting was the …