Navy Matters

Here’s a book for anyone who is a fan of the age of sail.   Donald Canney’s Sailing Warships of the US Navy [1] presents a description and h...

Battleship armor was not a constant.   It was an ever evolving concept that saw continuous changes in metallurgy, manufacturing, and structu...

Here’s some tidbits of good news about restoring our industrial ‘boom’ capacity.   How much TNT explosive does the United States produce?   ...

Fox’s TV commentary show, ‘Outnumbered’, had a discussion about President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks and had a brief discussion about the S...

Naval News website has an article about a Chinese experimental (prototype) unmanned, or optionally manned, small combatant surface vessel.  ...

You’ve probably noticed that several of ComNavOps’ fictional stories revolve around the Philippines.   This is not by random chance.   The s...

In the sidebar ‘Blast from the Past’ you'll see a post from July 2012 which discusses the relative merits of new construction versus upg...