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ComNavOps has discussed various aspects of what our naval force structure should be but it’s generally been in isolation rather than presented as a grand overview. This has sometimes made it difficult for people who haven’t been following the blog closely to understand ...
We’ll probably never know the real reason why the Navy
decided to terminate the Constellation program but one of the factors certainly
had to be the glacially slow pace of construction progress.
You’re probably thinking this is a ComNavOps April Fool’s
piece that somehow got misplaced on the calendar, right? Well, it’s not.
The
Nav...
A few comments in recent posts have suggested that the US
Navy buy minesweeper ships from foreign navies/yards. Japan has one of the more extensive fleets of
MCM vessels so let’s take a look at Japan’s minesweepers as a good example of a
possible MCM vessel for the US Navy.
Reader AndyM had recently offered an absolutely masterful
summation of Marine Corps acquisition programs. Nothing
says dead on ideas like just making a new repeat, LCAC, H-53 and LCU.[1]
He is dead on.
Indeed, thi...
