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Navy’s Trimaran Fighter Speeds Ahead
With the world’s largest and most powerful fleet of aircraft carriers, destroyers and cruisers, the U.S. Navy absolutely dominates the deep water. But not so much in shallow waters — the so-called...
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Debating the Navy’s ‘Plug-and-Play’ Warship
To boost ship numbers without spending much more money, the U.S. Navy put a new twist on an old idea, “modularity.” But that plug-and-play approach has proven very expensive. As the Navy struggles to...
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Plenty of Blame to Go Around for ‘Disappearing’ Warship
Austal, America’s newest warship-builder, is still scrambling to recover from the late-June revelation that the USS Independence, the Littoral Combat Ship it just built for the U.S. Navy, is...
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Navy’s Newest Ship Is Pickup Truck of the Sea
There's not much inside the Navy's newest ship, and that's exactly how they like it. The 338-footlong catamaran is basically a thin aluminum shell wrapped around four diesel engines. "The vessel is in...
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Navy’s New Minehunter Can’t See or Stop Mines
It's bad enough that the Navy's newest ship has had wicked problems with corrosion, missed out on the latest naval wartime missions and is generally something of a Frankenstein's monster. Now the...
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