Navy Matters

The Flower class corvette was the epitome of a single purpose vessel (to be fair, most ships were in WWII).   It was designed and built to p...

It has been some 80+ years since WWII and in that time we have seen some truly remarkable advances in tank design, aircraft design, missile ...

One of the lesser known engagements of WWII involved the gun duel between the US battleship USS Massachusetts and the French battleship Jean...

ComNavOps constantly harps on targeting (see, “Weapons Don’t Matter” ).   As I always say, a million mile missile is useless with ten mile t...

I generally avoid simply repeating information from other sources but I occasionally make an exception for truly amazing works.   One such...

We haven’t done a book review in a while so let’s do one!   The Fletcher class destroyer was the iconic destroyer of WWII but have you...

Here’s a quick, fun item …   How many battleships did the US build during WWII?   Several, maybe a dozen?   This may shock you but the...

The WWII Atlanta/Juneau classes of anti-aircraft (AA) cruisers were a fascinating development.   In the initial design discussions, the sh...

The Fletcher class destroyers were numerous and highly successful.   We’ve noted various ship design elements that contributed to their su...