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Builder’s sea trials for USS Zumwalt completed following modernisation

The sea trials assessed the ship’s systems following integration of the US Navy’s first Conventional Prompt Strike system.

The US Navy is betting on a foreign design for its new medium landing ship

The U.S. Navy's new medium landing ship design, sourced from a foreign shipbuilder, was chosen to control cost overruns and ...
Seapower

HII Completes Builder’s Sea Trials for USS Zumwalt

HII’s (NYSE: HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division successfully completed builder’s sea trials for USS Zumwalt (D ...
Defense One

I ‘did not expect to be told to build a battleship,’ Navy’s surface warfare director says

“I did not expect to be told to build a battleship when I got this job,” Rear Adm. Derek Trinque, the Navy staff’s surface ...

Navy’s Top Admiral Eyes Modular Construction To Speed New Frigate Construction

The "distributed shipbuilding" concept should reduce the time it takes to build the frigates, according to the Chief of Naval ...
War on the RocksOpinion

Why the U.S. Navy Doesn’t Build Battleships Anymore

On Apr. 7, 1945, aircraft from the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier task force sank the largest battleship ever built, the Imperial ...
HeraldNet

No crew required: Christening held for autonomous ship prototype in Everett

Built in Whidbey Island, the USX-1 Defiant is part of a larger goal to bring unmanned surface vessels to the US Navy. EVERETT — Politicians, naval officials and top executives of the federal Defense ...
The Hill

To build ships faster, the Navy needs to change how it designs them

Two days before Thanksgiving, Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the cancellation of the $22 billion 20 ship Constellation multi-mission frigate program. The ship was meant to be capable of ...