USN in General

[Pelican]

The Navy’s Next-Generation Destroyer Looks Unaffordable. The Service Needs To Keep Improving What It Already Has.

See - https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthomp ... 67bbf711f5 - LFT

[Pelican]

Nearly 40% of US Attack Submarines Are Out of Commission for Repairs

See - https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2023/07/nea ... more-60688

[Pelican]

Marines Activate First Tomahawk Battery

The Marine Corps stood up its first-ever Tomahawk cruise missile battery at Camp Pendleton, Calif., last week.

Alpha Battery, which falls under the 11th Marine Regiment, is the first of three Long-Range Missile (LMSL) batteries that the service plans to procure starting in FY 2024.The Long-Range Fires Launcher will use the same ROGUE-Fires carrier of the Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System (NMESIS) and mount a single Mk.41 vertical launch system cell, according to budgetary documents. Each LMSL battery will have 16 launchers, former Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger said in a statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Continues at - https://news.usni.org/2023/07/25/marine ... wk-battery

[Pelican]

US Dispatches 4 Navy Destroyers to Aleutians to Counter Chinese & Russian Ships

The US Navy dispatched four destroyers and a reconnaissance airplane after 11 Chinese and Russian military vessels carried out a joint naval patrol near Alaska’s Aleutian islands last week.

The combined naval patrol, which the Wall Street Journal first reported, appeared to be the largest such flotilla to approach US territory, according to experts that spoke to the outlet.

Continues at - https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2023/08/us- ... more-60763

[Brian James]

USS Virginia (SSN 774) is moved outdoors for the first time at the General Dynamics Electric Boat Shipyard at Groton, Connecticut, August 3rd 2003.

[Brian James]

Island Class Cutter, USCG Cuttyhunk escorts Ohio Class Submarine USS Kentucky through Juan De Fuca Strait, Washington, August 7th 2003.

[Pelican]

US Navy’s Tico fleet nears 50% strength as USS Lake Champlain departs

The Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers are being replaced by the new Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers.
See - https://www.naval-technology.com/news/u ... -departs/- LFT

[Pelican]

Aerial view of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise (CVN-65) of the United States Navy, with physicist Albert Einstein's E = mc 2 mass–energy equivalence equation laid out on the flight deck, is escorted by the missile cruiser USS Long Beach (centre) and the missile frigate, USS Bainbridge, during Operation Sea Orbit, the first circumnavigation of the world by nuclear-powered surface warships,31 July 1964 off Bahia de Pollença, Mallorca, Spain.

[Pelican]

Two Ships of US Navy “Ghost Fleet” Visit Japan

In August, we posted about how Ukrainian naval drones are redefining warfare in the Black Sea in Ukraine’s battle against the ongoing Russian invasion. On the other side of the globe, two US Navy unmanned surface vessels (USV) arrived in Yokosuka, Japan in mid-September, during a period of increasing tensions with China.

The USVs are significantly different from the Ukrainian drones in both size and strategy. The USVs Mariner and Ranger are a part of the US Navy’s Ghost Fleet Overlord, a program for prototyping multi-mission unmanned vessels that was started in 2018. Ghost Fleet Overlord is a program of the Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office being executed in partnership with the US Navy.

In the month prior, the ships participated in exercises including the Large Scale Exercise 2023 — operating in conjunction with the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and its strike group — while the Navy evaluated the new technology, according to Cmdr. Jeremiah Daley, head of Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One.

Continues at - https://www.oldsaltblog.com/2023/10/two ... more-60906

[Pelican]

U.S. Navy’s SPY-6 Family of Radars

SPY-6 is the U.S. Navy family of radars that performs air and missile defense on seven classes of ships and is a giant leap in capability for the fleet.

The SPY-6 family is integrated, meaning it can defend against ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, hostile aircraft and surface ships simultaneously. And it offers many advantages over legacy radars, such as greater detection range, increased sensitivity and more accurate discrimination.

See - https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do ... CpvDqEK1_A


Also - In honor of the upcoming USS Jack H. Lucas - DDG 125 Commissioning, we’re releasing the 2023 Ships and Submarines of the U.S. Navy poster.
Download your free copy here: https://raytheontech.co/3PDvRFs

I do not want the poster but out of interest I did download it, opened the downloaded pdf via M.S. Edge which permits it to be printed.