Navy Matters

Having failed so many times, the Navy’s primary shipbuilding criteria is no longer lethality (if it ever was in modern times) but the [incor...

What’s the Navy’s latest fad in shipbuilding?   Yeah … parent designs.     The concept is that an existing, well established, “parent” desi...

The degree of delusion and fantasy associated with this NSC frigate concept is already stunning and does not bode well for the program.   Le...

It is a rare occasion when ComNavOps gets to sincerely recognize and praise a US Navy accomplishment but such is the case with the recent de...

China has announced its UAV mothership/carrier, a UAV capable of launching 100 drones.   Well, that’s it.   We’re doomed.   I don’t know abo...

We noted in a 2022 post that the Navy had a gap of 5,000 – 6,000 unfilled at-sea billets.[1]   Today, that gap has widened to over 20,000.[2...

I applauded the Navy’s decision to terminate the Constellation program and still do.   I also, initially, viewed the decision to build a NSC...