US Navy testing aerial laser
The US Navy is testing an aerial laser that can detect underwater mines, and it could change naval warfare By Kris Osborn, Warrior Maven From Business Insider The US Navy used an MH-60S helicopter-mounted laser system to scan and detect…
The Navy is looking at an unmanned helicopter to make its newest ships more lethal — and it just passed the first test
By Christopher Woody From Business Insider The Navy recently completed initial testing of the MQ-8C Fire Scout, an unmanned helicopter capable of carrying three times as much payload as an earlier version. The Navy hopes to deploy the MQ-8C aboard…
The Pentagon got caught trying to hide embarrassing cost overruns on Navy ships
By Paul Szoldra From Business Insider If the data you need to release to the public is potentially embarrassing, there’s always classification review to the rescue. The US Government Accountability Office deleted details of cost overruns on two of the…
A fourth US Navy littoral combat ship has broken down in the span of a year
By Hope Hodge Seck, Military.com From Business Insider The littoral combat ship USS Coronado is returning to Pearl Harbor from the Western Pacific after experiencing an engineering casualty earlier Tuesday, officials with the Navy’s Third Fleet confirmed. The incident comes…
