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The DDG(X) will use Integrated Power System (IPS), a modern integrated turboelectric drive as employed on the Zumwalt class. The vessels are expected to have 50% greater range, a 120% greater time on station, and a 25% reduction in fuel burn compared to current U.S. Navy destroyers.
U.S. designed landing craft utility based on LCT Mark 5 landing craft tank. Built under license by IHI of Japan for export to U.S. allies and for the Japan Self-Defense Force. [ 21 ] Three landing crafts were refurbished and refitted in Japan before they were transferred to the Philippines in 1975. [ 22 ]
The River-class destroyer, formerly the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC), and Single Class Surface Combatant Project is the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax-class warships with up to 15 new ships beginning in the early 2030s as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. [14] [15]
HMS Glasgow is the first Type 26 frigate to be built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. [14] The Type 26 class will partially replace the navy's thirteen Type 23 frigates, [15] and will be a multi-mission warship designed to support anti-submarine warfare, air defence and general purpose operations.
The National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy will invest more than $60 billion into the development of Arctic capable patrol vessels, frigate-class surface warships, and long-range auxiliary supply vessels. Delivery has been initiated on a class of six Harry DeWolf-class vessels under the Arctic Patrol Ship Project (AOPS).
The U.S. Navy deployed warships and aircraft to track a Russian naval flotilla after the Russian vessels sailed just 26 nautical miles off of South Florida’s coast on Tuesday.
The Navy’s ability to build lower-cost warships that can shoot down Houthi rebel missiles in the Red Sea depends in part on a 25-year-old laborer who previously made parts for garbage trucks.
Later the U.S. Navy clarified via Twitter that reports about reusing the USS Brooke name for a new warship were erroneous. [42] In October 2020, Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite announced the first FFG(X) frigate would be named USS Constellation (FFG-62). [43]