Navy Matters

It's been while since the last open post so let's do it again.   This is your chance to offer a comment on whatever interests you. G...

We previously compared vertical launch systems (VLS) to arm launchers (see, “VLS Versus Arm Launchers” ) and concluded that VLS was not quit...

  Just a bit of nonsense.   I was struck by a photo of a concept model of a MEKO A210 frigate.     MEKO A210 Does anyone else think it’s re...

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be the future of warfare or, at the very least, a major component of it.   Heck, we already have it to...

Here’s a quick, fun little comparison …   The USS Ford, CVN-78, was commissioned Jul 2017, some 76 years after the USS Essex, CV-9, was comm...

The cruiser’s six 8” guns trained and elevated, aimed at an uninhabited piece of rock rising from the ocean.   The guns paused, ever so brie...

Focusing on the equipment side of things as opposed to policy debacles such as minimal manning, here are the worst modern naval developments...