Chinese See U.S. Littoral Combat Ship as ‘Powerful Tool’ in Future Distributed Conflicts
The Chinese military sees the Littoral Combat Ship armed with anti-ship missiles as a key element of a U.S. distributed…
U.S. 3rd Fleet Shifts Command Hub to Hawaii as Vinson CSG, Air Wing Join Global Large-Scale Exercises
San Diego-based U.S. 3rd Fleet relocated its command-and-control hub to Hawaii to support the Navy’s Large Scale Exercise 2021 and…
Search Warrant Gives New Details into Navy’s Case Against Bonhomme Richard Sailor Charged With Arson
A federal search warrant filing was unsealed this week in the case of a sailor the Navy officially charged last…
Navy Charges Sailor with Arson, Hazarding a Vessel in 2020 Bonhomme Richard Fire
This post has been updated with additional details of the sailor accused of starting the fire aboard the former Bonhomme Richard…
CNO Gilday: Keeping Littoral Combat Ships Nimble Key to Pacific Deployments, No Plans for 1st Fleet in Singapore
KUALA LUMPUR — The Navy is making Littoral Combat Ship deployments in the Indo-Pacific region more flexible and unpredictable, allowing…
SWOBOSS: Bonhomme Richard Blaze Prompted Navy to Add More Fire Marshalls, Training
THE PENTAGON – Lessons from the fire that took out a 40,000-ton U.S. warship are trickling out into the fleet…
USS Theodore Roosevelt Heading to Bremerton After Back-to-Back Deployments
Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is changing homeports from San Diego, Calif., to Bremerton, Wash., for an overdue dry-dock…
Six Littoral Combat Ships to Deploy by Year’s End as Navy Continues to Refine Operations
The Navy will have six Littoral Combat Ships deployed by the end of the year – a record for the…
Bonhomme Richard Hull Completes Final Voyage to Texas Shipbreaker
The hull of the former amphibious warship Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) has arrived at the yard of a Texas shipbreaker for…
7th Fleet CO: Deployed LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords ‘Pretty Much Owned’ South China Sea
The Navy is now pushing the Littoral Combat Ships out into the Pacific in force after more than a decade…