The Navy is trying to preserve a sea-based Marine airpower option on ships that are becoming harder to keep at sea. The “lightning carrier” concept depends on big-deck amphibious assault ships that ...
A “very rare” Navy ship that once hunted mines in the Pacific is being rebuilt in an unlikely place: the Port of Stockton in California’s Central Valley. The USS Lucid, a Cold War era minesweeper, is ...
“The Navy continues to drive toward our goal of 80% combat surge-ready ships, aircraft and submarines with urgency and accountability,” Kilby said, adding that he’s concerned with the material ...