littoral
Lockheed Martin-led team's second Littoral Combat Ship commissioned today by U.S. Navy
September 21 by Lockheed Martin Press OfficeThe U.S. Navy commissioned the nation's third Littoral Combat Ship – USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) – in Galveston, Texas on Saturday, Sept. 22, officially placing the ship designed and construc...
Mexican Navy Safeguards Its Shores With Oaxaca Class Offshore Patrol Vessels
May 12 by Defence IQ Digital
Rolls-Royce to power ten Littoral Combat Ships for the US Navy
January 19 by Rolls-Royce Press OfficeRolls-Royce, the global power systems company, will supply gas turbines and waterjets for ten of the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) – the Group’s largest ever marine naval...
'1.21 Gigawatts?!': Directed Energy Weapons Charge Up for a Naval Showdown
January 19 by Nick YoungThe last line of defence for warships worldwide is the Close in Weapon System (CIWS) (pronounced ‘seewiz’). CIWS designs are usually optimised against anti-ship missiles (ASMs), which are...
SEA 1000 Submarine Programme Delivers Australian Counter Punch to Chinese Sea Power
December 27 by Kristoffer PettersenNew submarine power On May 2nd, 2009, the Australian Government issued a White Paper stating its intentions to acquire twelve new submarines for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The new replacemen...
Fighting Blind in Brown Water: Naval Air Defence in the Littoral
December 15 by Nick YoungOn Tuesday the 25th of May 1982, the second wave of two aircraft flew low overland towards a state-of-the-art air defence (AD) platform worth, at today’s rates, an estimated £155M. This...
2015 - A Naval Odyssey: Royal Navy Strategic Forecasts for Future Force Projection
November 17 by David MugridgeIt is probably a futile exercise to add to the invective that has followed the publication of David Cameron’s much-heralded and financially-driven SDSR. However, many in the broader defence c...
Littoral Ship Defence 2010 with Joseph Bell
February 02 by Defence IQ PressCommander Joseph Bell, Section Head of the littoral combat ship programme at the Department of the Chief of Naval Operations for the United States Navy, talks to Defence IQ about the LCS program, t...