Combat Fleet Count Update

Here is the periodic update on the combat fleet size.   The Navy claims the fleet is growing and is well on its way to 300+ but w…

Ship Service Life Extensions

In their latest act of delusional fantasy, the Navy is looking at arbitrarily extending the service life of ship classes.  Of cou…

Congress Proposes Additional Carrier

Here’s an interesting little tidbit from the current Congressional draft version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. …

2017 Commissionings / Decommissionings

Here’s an informational post documenting last year’s commissionings and decommissionings as reported listed in the May 2018 Proce…

Combat Fleet Count - China vs. U.S. Comparison

I’m beginning a combat fleet count for China to use as a comparison to ours.  I’ll use the same criteria for inclusion. To refre…

Combat Fleet Count Update

Here is the periodic update on the combat fleet size.  The Navy claims the fleet is growing and is well on its way to 300+ but wh…

Break Up The Burkes

The Burke class destroyers are considered a marvel of modern engineering and have set the bar for all subsequent naval warship de…

Aimless

I’m seeing more and more blind, aimless pushing for more Navy ships by a variety of people both in uniform and out.  So what’s wr…

Pick A Number, Any Number

The Navy’s latest fleet size target is now 355 ships. “The Navy needs potentially as much as $150 billion over current budget pla…

LCS Readiness

Over at his blog, Cdr. Salamander poses the question “If we had to go to war, exactly what would the LCS we've commissioned o…