Navy Matters

How many times have I said it?  Before you build a ship you spell out a concept of operations (CONOPS).  Well, the Navy has violated that s...

The Navy’s first purpose designed Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) is the USNS Lewis B. Puller (T-ESB-3).  It was delivered to the Navy i...

Let’s take an updated look at the Mobile Landing Platform, MLP, vessel program, once the hottest thing in the Navy but now largely quiet.  ...

We saw in the last post that the Tarawa (LHA-1) class amphibious ships were retired early at just 30 years of service and with no real jus...

Not withstanding some of the recent examples of new ships, naval vessels are generally characterized by strong construction, a degree of ...

Navy Times has posted a short article (1) describing the initial deployment of the USS Ponce which is the amphibious ship that was converte...