Navy Matters

We talked about the military’s idea of mobile nuclear reactors and ridiculed it as one of the dumbest ideas ever (see, “Mobile Nuclear Rea...

Late 1942.   Japan’s navy has delivered one unpleasant surprise and defeat after another to the US Navy.   So many of our ships have b...

Should unmanned surface vessels (USV) count as ships of the fleet?   Regardless of whatever policy the Navy may eventually settle on f...

ComNavOps abhors this kind of post but today’s circumstances demand it.   I hope that I will not be forced to make this a regular occurren...

The just-released CNO Navigation Plan 2022, aside from being a buzzword-filled, worthless piece of garbage, contains a piece of informatio...

The Navy is floundering.   They’re wandering aimlessly, throwing ideas against the wall to see if anything sticks.   Thus far, nothing has...

The former US Navy high speed vessel (HSV) Swift (HSV-2) was returned to the manufacturer, Incat, in July 2013 and then subsequently wound...