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WEB2 days ago · USS Manchester Returns to San Diego Homeport - by Lt. Brinn Hefron, 11 September 2024 SAN DIEGO – The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Manchester (LCS 14) arrived at its San Diego homeport Sept. 11, following an 18-month deployment. “We are extremely proud of the accomplishments made by the USS Manchester crews throughout their ...
U.S. Navy Asserts Freedom to Navigate in International Waters
WEBMar 15, 2021 · The U.S. Navy continues to assert its right to operate freely in international waters with yet another Taiwan Strait transit, following several recent freedom of navigation operations (FONOPS) in the South China Sea, particularly in the vicinity of the Spratly and Paracel Islands. The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John Finn ...
SSGN USS Florida Returns From 800-Day Deployment
WEBMay 15, 2020 · ARLINGTON, Va. — A U.S. Navy nuclear-powered Ohio-class guided-missile submarine has returned from a deployment lasting more than 800 days, or 30 months, the Navy said. “USS Florida (SSGN 728) returned to its homeport of Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia, May 9, after operating forward-deployed for more than two years supporting the U ...
Navy’s Second Ford CVN to Join the U.S. Pacific Fleet
WEBNov 28, 2023 · MEDITERRANEAN SEA (Oct. 11, 2023) The world’s largest aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) refuels from the underway replenishment oiler USNS Laramie (T-AO 203) in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Oct. 11, 2023. The second Ford-class CVN, the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), …
Philippine Navy Retires Four Ships as it Transitions to ... - Seapower
WEBMar 23, 2021 · The Republic of the Philippines’ navy is making a pivot from older legacy ships and craft to newer and more capable surface combatants. On March 1, 2021, the RPN decommissioned four of its oldest ships in a ceremony at the Heracleo Alano Naval Base in Sangley Point, Cavite City on the island of …
Signature Reduction Needed by SEALs, Marine Raiders, Leaders Say
WEBMay 18, 2020 · Green said that his command has a resource strategy with lines of effort to strengthen the SEALs and special boat units as they focus on sustaining a competitive advantage in the maritime domain: “signature reduction, lethality and survivability of our maritime combatant craft” as well as “developing and expanding our undersea capability ...
Navy Air Reserve Begins Transition to P-8A Poseidon Aircraft
WEBJun 8, 2022 · VP-69 is scheduled to begin transition to the P-8A in fiscal 2023. The 12 active-component fleet VP squadrons began transition in 2012 and completed the upgrade to the P-8A in 2020. For many years, the Navy was uncertain as to whether the two reserve VP squadrons would be able to upgrade to the P-8A. Eventually, the Navy’s program of …
Pentagon Assessment: China Now Has World’s Largest Navy
WEBSep 1, 2020 · A Chinese Type 052C destroyer, the Changchun, in Malaysia in 2017. ARLINGTON, Va. — The People’s Republic of China, increasing its two-decade military buildup, now has the world’s largest navy, according to the U.S. Defense Department’s latest annual assessment of China’s military capabilities. The …
Navy’s Advanced Aerial Sensor Deployed on P-8As to Western …
WEBJun 3, 2020 · ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy’s Advanced Aerial Sensor (AAS) has been deployed to the western Pacific, according to a release from the squadron that deployed the AAS on its P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol reconnaissance aircraft. Patrol Squadron 45 (VP-45), based out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, returned May 29 from an eight ...
Coast Guard Expedites ScanEagle ISR Services for National
WEBJan 17, 2020 · Two years ago, the Coast Guard awarded Insitu a contract to operate the ScanEagle on board all NSCs. “Over the past year and a half, we have begun integration on board all national security cutters,” said Ron Tremain, vice president of Insitu Defense, a Boeing company, who spoke to Seapower on Jan. 15 at the Surface Navy Association’s ...
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