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Cdr. Jacob Beckelhymer remembers vividly the first time his warship came under attack in the Red Sea.It was late September of last year, and the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Stockdale was already several months into its lengthy Middle East deployment. Beckelhymer, then the warship’s executive officer, knew that the ship…
It’s been a rough few months for the USS Harry S. Truman, which has suffered a string of serious and expensive mishaps since the aircraft carrier sailed into the Middle East at the end of last year.The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier has lost three F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets in the…
The US Navy faces a range of challenges, from shipbuilding gaps to overall fleet size, as it increasingly looks across the Pacific with concern at China’s growing maritime might.Blue Water Autonomy, a relatively new defense technology company building uncrewed warships, believes that these vessels are the answer to the Navy’s…
The US Navy next Ford-class aircraft carrier is just about done, but it could be held up by challenges with the elevators, Navy officers and officials said this week.It’s a bit of déjà vu. The same technology was at the center of headaches for USS Gerald R. Ford, the first…
