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New US Navy destroyers to be powered by GE Aerospace’s marine gas turbine engines
GE Aerospace will supply eight LM2500 gas turbine engines for two new US Navy Flight III destroyers, as part of the new deal.
President Donald Trump unveiled a plan to build massive Navy “battleships” called the Golden Fleet, claiming they’d be “100 ...
The 21st century battleships would be as different from the Iowa-class battleships of World War II as those warships were ...
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The US Navy Is Modernizing Its Arleigh Burke Destroyers, And This One Just Passed A Major Test
The U.S. Navy reached a major milestone in an effort to modernize its Arleigh Burke class of guided-missile destroyers when the USS Ted Stevens (DDG-128) completed builder's sea trials in late ...
The destroyer fighting ship (not to be confused with the cruiser) is the workhorse of the modern U.S. Navy. The 75 destroyers in active service — which are mostly Arleigh Burke-class ships — are able ...
The U.S. Navy's use of pigeons began decades before World War II, but the birds found their most critical mission during the war—flying messages from submarine-hunting blimps during a time when radio ...
Navy destroyers will spend considerably less time projecting American sea power than planned, with chronic delays and labor overruns cutting nearly a decade off their operational lifespans, according ...
All in all, the expansion of USV use is a promising experiment that could ameliorate the US Navy’s force-structure woes—while amplifying US fleets’ combat power in a hurry. Over at Defense One last ...
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