U.S. Navy Begins Tomahawk Missile Training for Japanese Forces
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by Dzirhan Mahadzir
14h ago
USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile April 13, 2018 against land targets in Syria. US Navy Photo The U.S. Navy began training Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel on the Tomahawk cruise missile this week, according to a Thursday statement by Japan Defense Minister Minoru Kihara. In his statement, Kihara said that the Ministry of Defense and Japan Self Defence Forces will strengthen its stand-off defense capabilities to disrupt and defeat the forces invading Japan early and from far away. “As a part of our effort, regarding Tomahawk, the United States Navy has been c ..read more
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Navy Salvage Team Leading Drive to Open Fort McHenry Channel After Key Bridge Collapse
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by Heather Mongilio
18h ago
NTSB investigators on the cargo vessel Dali, which struck and collapsed the Francis Scott Key Bridge on March 26, 2024. NTSB Photo The Navy is leading salvage efforts to clear and re-open the channel leading to the Port of Baltimore following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, service officials told USNI News on Thursday. Naval Sea Systems Command supervisor of salvage and diving is supporting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Unified Command, led by the Coast Guard, reads a statement provided to USNI News. The Coast Guard and its multiple Maryland and federal partners ..read more
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Report to Congress on Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter
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by U.S. Naval Institute Staff
21h ago
The following is the March 27, 2023, Congressional Research Service report, Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter (Polar Icebreaker) Program: Background and Issues for Congress. From the report Required number of polar icebreakers. A 2023 Coast Guard fleet mix analysis concluded that the service will require a total of eight to nine polar icebreakers, including four to five heavy polar icebreakers and four to five medium polar icebreakers, to perform its polar (i.e., Arctic and Antarctic) missions in coming years. Current operational polar icebreaker fleet. The operational U.S. polar icebreaking f ..read more
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CNO Franchetti Focused on Growing Shipbuilding, Weapons Industrial Base
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by Sam LaGrone
1d ago
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti tours the Independence-class littoral combat ship PCU Kingsville (LCS-36) at Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Ala., Mar. 4., 2024. US Navy Photo Faced with flat budgets for the foreseeable future, the Navy’s top officer wants to devote the resources she has to develop capacity for shipbuilding and munitions to preserve the existing industrial base. Speaking during a prerecorded interview with Defense One broadcast on Wednesday, Adm. Lisa Franchetti said her four-year term as chief of naval operations would pay particular attention to ..read more
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Navy to Test Microwave Anti-Drone Weapon at Sea in 2026 
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by Zach Abdi
1d ago
Amphibious transport dock ship USS Portland (LPD-27) conducts a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration on a static surface training target, Dec. 14, 2021. US Navy Photo The U.S. Navy plans to mount a high-powered microwave prototype system on one of its vessels as early as 2026, according to the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2025 budget documents. The system will come from the Navy’s Project METEOR, which is developing a directed energy weapon system prototype that the service plans to integrate on ships in 2026. METEOR will “provide capability with low cost-per-shot, deep magazine, tactically sig ..read more
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Hanoi’s ‘Bamboo Diplomacy’ Preserves Vietnamese Independence, Says Foreign Minister
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by John Grady
2d ago
Capt. Daryle Cardone, commanding officer of USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), greets Senior Capt. Nguyen Thien Quan, Vietnam People’s Navy Region Three Commander, during a welcome ceremony in Da Nang, Vietnam, June 25, 2023. U.S. Navy Photo Vietnam’s “bamboo diplomacy” has allowed Hanoi to carefully enter strategic partnerships with the U.S. and China while maintaining its own independence and security, its foreign minister said Tuesday at a Brookings Institution event. Bui Thanh Son said, “bamboo has been associated with Vietnam long, long, long ago,” adding that the Vietnamese “use bamboo to defen ..read more
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Navy Doubles Down on Submarine Industrial Base Funding in Unfunded Request
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by Mallory Shelbourne
3d ago
USS South Dakota (SSN-790) transits the Thames River during a homecoming event in Groton, Conn., Aug. 14, 2023. US Navy Photo Money to bolster the submarine industrial base is at the top of the Navy’s $2.24 billion unfunded priorities list for Fiscal Year 2025, but that item is dependent on the fate of the Biden administration’s national security supplemental request. In a March 25 letter to Congress, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti said the FY 2024 supplemental request – which includes $3.3 billion for the submarine industrial base – is her number one unfunded item. “Our FY 202 ..read more
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Split 15th MEU Deployment Continues as USS Somerset Joins Indian Amphibious Exercise
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by Dzirhan Mahadzir
3d ago
Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Garrett Legan, assigned to Charlie Company, Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepares for fast-rope training aboard the amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD-25) during Exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Visakhapatnam, India, March 20, 2024. US Marine Corps Photo Elements of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (15th MEU) embarked on amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD-25) are now conducting an exercise in India, while back in the U.S., the MEU’s MV-22B Ospreys are beginning reintegration training, according to Friday releases by t ..read more
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Navy, DoD Identify Two Sailors Who Died Underway in the Past Week
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by Heather Mongilio
4d ago
Two Navy sailors who were assigned to deployed warships died over the past week – one in the Red Sea and one in the Indian Ocean. Aviation Machinist’s Mate 2nd Class Oriola Michael Aregbesola, assigned to USS Mason (DDG-87) went missing on March 20 with search and rescue efforts conducted but have since been called off, according to a March 22 Central Command release. Mason is operating in the Red Sea as part of Operation Prosperity Guardian. It took Central Command two days to issue a release about the missing sailor. The Department of Defense identified Aregbesola in a March 23 release. Areg ..read more
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Baltic Foreign Ministers Urge More U.S. to Support Ukraine
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by John Grady
4d ago
Attendees of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group are welcomed at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, March. 19, 2024. US Air Force Photo This is the time to press forward with military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv because “Russia has no plan to stop” its aggression at Ukraine’s borders, the foreign ministers of three Baltic nations and the United Kingdom’s ambassador to the United States warned Monday. President Vladimir Putin’s state-managed reelection for another six-year term paved the way for a huge increase in the Russian army, Lithuania’s Gabrielius Landsbergis said. “We’re talking Stalingrad numb ..read more
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