Go Play Right Field

This reference may only be understandable to American readers but … When you played Little League or sandlot pickup baseball game…

Frigate Manning and Maintenance

For years, now, the Navy has been complaining that manpower was too costly and, indeed, the Navy embarked on an unwise, misguide…

Austal Raided By Feds

USNI News website reported on an interesting LCS shipbuilding development.   It appears that Federal agents are searching the Aus…

The New Frigate - A Knee Jerk Reaction

The Navy is well along the path of acquiring a new frigate.   Well, it’s more of a mini-Burke than a frigate.   Before we celebra…

LCS Idle Thoughts

Here’s a few idle thoughts about the LCS: The first LCS was commissioned in 2008. There are 14 commissioned LCS, 7 of each varian…

LCS MCM - What's The Point?

As we all know, the LCS is, by design and intent, utterly useless without a module.   Of course, the first LCS was commissioned…

Zumwalt and LCS - Main Batteries

What do the Zumwalt and LCS programs have in common?  Well, lots of things – all bad!  However, for the purpose of this post, the…

Partial Delivery - Total Obfuscation

Over the years of this blog, we’ve noted the rise in accounting games that the Navy has been playing to hide the true costs of we…