Kristen Trindle’s “bold actions and decisive leadership in a rapidly deteriorating security environment” saved the lives of Americans and Afghan allies.
Hypersonic weapons could rescue the Navy’s stealth destroyer
FeaturedZumwalt-class destroyers are the Navy’s most advanced ships, but they still haven’t found their purpose. Hypersonic weapons could solve that.
As Navy’s drone ship fleet takes shape, major questions remain unanswered
NavyUnmanned vessels will be a part of the future US fleet. However, these futuristic drone ships still have obstacles to overcome.
Sinking of Russian flagship hastens new era of naval warfare
FeaturedThe sinking of the Moskva is the latest in a series of Russian setbacks and has the world’s navies watching.
The Navy wants to decommission 24 ships. Are plans for a Mega-Fleet dead?
FeaturedIn 2016, the U.S. Navy announced that it needed 355 manned ships by around 2050 to execute mission requirements around the globe – up from the 308 currently in the fleet. But the fiscal 2023 White House budget request released on March 28 calls for the retirement of 24 ships and the construction of just […]
‘The wolf’s at the door.’ How Russia is reshaping the NATO alliance
FeaturedWhat Obama tried to accomplish with appeals and Trump with threats is now happening without a great deal of either from President Joe Biden: amid Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, NATO member nations are significantly ramping up their defense spending levels. Days after the Feb. 24 invasion, Germany announced plans to increase its defense funding, with […]
Why Space Force wants to patrol around the Moon
FeaturedMost people don’t have a nickname for the stretch of space that reaches from earth’s orbit to the moon. But in the Space Force, they do: the “cone of shame.” For complicated reasons having to do with trajectories and the moon’s gravitational pull, that stretch – called “cislunar space” – is very difficult to monitor […]
12 badass women who could get US Military bases named after them
FeaturedA World War II POW and a Civil War Medal of Honor recipient are two of the dozen women who may replace Confederate generals as namesakes for nine military bases. Last March, Congress created a special eight-member commission to study the costs of renaming or ditching bases and landmarks paying tribute to the Confederacy, and […]
The Army just activated its massive gear stockpile in Europe. Here’s what that means
FeaturedJust days after Russia launched a full-scale military invasion into Ukraine, the U.S. Army broke glass on its emergency stockpile of war equipment in Europe, outfitting an entire deployed brigade combat team with everything from vehicles to combat rations in a historic first. The 405th Army Field Support Brigade, which oversees the Army Prepositioned Stock-2 […]
Deep-Diving robots are now inspecting Navy ships
FeaturedSmall, relatively cheap commercial robots are making a big play for one of the most crucial maintenance jobs on Navy ships. Earlier this month, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MRMC), a division of Naval Sea Systems Command, hosted a demo aboard the amphibious assault ship Iwo Jima in which a VideoRay Pro 4 remotely operated […]
