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US Navy’s unmanned vessel plans need improvement, watchdog agency says

While the U.S. Navy is steaming full speed ahead in developing unmanned surface and undersea drones to augment the fleet of the future, the information technology and artificial intelligence that will drive these platforms remains a work in progress. The sea service needs to better map out its efforts, according to a government watchdog report released this week.
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It's National Winston Churchill Day to commemorate when the British Prime Minister became an honorary U.S. citizen in 1963. The USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81) flies the Royal Navy White Ensign on special occasions and has a Royal Navy officer assigned permanently to the ship's company.

U.S. Navy Conducts Historic Test Of New Laser Weapon System

During an Office of Naval Research (ONR) test, an all-electric, high-energy laser weapon was used to defeat a target representing a subsonic cruise missile in flight. The Layered Laser Defense (LLD) weapon was designed and built by Lockheed Martin to serve as a multi-domain, multi-platform demonstration system.

See - https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/20 ... on-system/

Link from Tim.

New Navy Unmanned Command Will Send 4 Experimental Large USVs to RIMPAC

See - https://news.usni.org/2022/05/17/new-na ... rCneWSrE3Y - lengthy article + photos.

HII Receives U.S. Navy Contract For Construction Of Two Ford-Class Aircraft Carriers

See - https://military.autodailyz.com/hii-rec ... OR2_GiVN6U

Farewell “Battle Cat” : Carrier Kitty Hawk Arrives at Scrap Yard

See - http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2022/06/fare ... more-59316

And - https://www.businessinsider.com/us-airc ... &r=US&IR=T

UK and US sign deal to use naval fuel depots in Scotland


American ships can now take on fuel from Royal Navy depots in Scotland, in a move designed to support U.S. Navy operations in the North Atlantic and Arctic.

The Royal Navy say here that the two nations have signed a fuel storage agreement, giving the US Navy access to two key depots on the West Coast.

Continues at - https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/uk-and- ... -scotland/

‘Mothership Of Undersea Drones’ — US Navy’s New Amphibious Warships Could Be Used To Launch & Recover LDUUVs


The US Navy’s fiscal 2023 budget request had earlier revealed that the service plans to buy one more San Antonio-class amphibious ship before ending production, according to DefenseNews.

However, a new demonstration by Shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has hinted at new capabilities for the famed San-Antonio warships.

Huntington Ingalls Industries, or HII, has completed a test in Mississippi’s Pascagoula River, demonstrating that its San Antonio class amphibious warships can launch, operate, and retrieve Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (LDUUV).

The launch and recovery test was carried out by HII’s Advanced Technology Group using a prototype portable dry dock-like platform called Pharos and HII’s LDUUV Proteus, according to a press statement on June 13. The demo has hinted that the San Antonio class can become a ‘mother ship’ to LDUUVs.

The demonstration comes at a time when the US Navy is actively pursuing the Unmanned Underwater Vehicle program with several roadblocks in the form of issues with design, development, and the enormous costs incurred in the process.

Continues at - https://eurasiantimes.com/us-navys-new- ... ed-lduuvs/

Link from Tim.

“Fat Leonard,” a Major Navy Corruption Scandal, Then an Award Winning Podcast, and Soon a TV Series

See: http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2022/06/fat- ... more-59362

Watch: The World’s Deepest Shipwreck Was Just Discovered Nearly 23,000 Feet Under the Sea


The USS Destroyer, nicknamed "Sammy B," sank during a battle in the Philippine Sea in '44.

See - https://robbreport.com/motors/marine/wo ... 234694427/