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Navy Didn't Fudge Ship Numbers, UnderSec Work Says

Filed under: SeaNATIONAL HARBOR, MD [updated 7:30 am Thursday 19 April with Congressional comment and Raymond Pritchett's retraction] : The smartest man in the Department of the Navy, Under Secretary...

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Iran Mine Threat Scares Navy; CNO Scrambles To Fix Decades Of Neglect

Filed under: SeaWASHINGTON: Iran's threat to strangle oil tanker traffic through the Straits of Hormuz has the Navy scrambling to redress its decades-old neglect of mine warfare. Admirals from the...

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Why The Army's Experimenting With Laser-Guided Lightning

Filed under: LandThere's been a fair bit of buzz online of late over experiments with a technology called a "laser-induced plasma channel" - essentially, laser-guided, artificially generated lightning...

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Rise Of Robot Boats: How The Navy Might Hunt Sea Mines

Filed under: SeaLAS VEGAS: "Keeping the sailor out of the minefield," the Navy's new mantra for mine warfare, means sending the robots in. As part of an annual exercise in July called "Trident...

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Navy Mine War Game 'Not About Iran,' Officially; Biggest Mine Exercise 'Ever'

Filed under: SeaCORRECTED: Fixes Number of Minesweepers in US Ports 9:35 am 10/1/2012 Officially, despite rising tensions with Tehran, the enemy in in the international naval wargames that kicked off...

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