Navy Matters

The Navy is heavily invested in helicopters from a tactical perspective and few people even pause to consider the limits of their applicabi...

I often encounter people who concede that the LCS has problems but that they like the module concept and see it as the wave of the future. ...

The Bofors Mk110 57 mm gun is the standard armament on the LCS.  A recent Navy Times report (30-May-12) stated that of 840 rounds fired fr...

Publicly, at least, the Navy talks about wanting to maintain a fleet size of 300+ ships;   313 being a commonly cited goal.   Desired flee...

The LCS may not be the perfect littoral combat ship but we’ve got to have something, right?   I mean, you can’t successfully fight in the l...

While the LCS is soaking up most of the attention of naval observers, there is another ship currently being designed and built that also ha...

Sometimes it's fun to take a break from LCS-bashing although the Navy makes it so darn easy.  Anyway, let's take a look at Marine Co...