Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Sydney (DDG-42) successfully fired a Naval Strike Missile and sank former amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa (LHA-1) in the waters off Hawaii during the biennial Rim of the Pacific 2024 exercise.
The Australian Department of Defense...
ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER – “Home Sweet Home” by Motley Crue blasted through the ship’s speakers as Commanding Officer Capt. Christopher “Chowdah” Hill made his morning announcement.
Up on the flight deck, Lee Greenwald’s “God Bless the U.S.A.” and Guns N’ Roses’ “Sweet Child of Mine” played while sailors performed their...
The following is the July 12, 2024, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Ford (CVN-78) Class Aircraft Carrier Program: Background and Issues for Congress.
From the report
The aircraft carriers CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, CVN-81, and CVN-82 are the first five ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). The Navy’s proposed FY2025 budget requests $2,143.9 million (i.e., about $2.1 billion) in procurement funding for Ford-class ships,...
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/18/report-to-congress-on-gerald-r-ford-aircraft-carrier-program-3
The temporary U.S. military pier built to ferry aid to civilians in Gaza will shut down and the international community will now deliver aid to Israel’s Ashdod port, officials announced Wednesday.
“Our assessment is that the temporary pier has achieved its intended effect: to surge a very high volume of aid into Gaza and ensure that aid reaches the civilians in Gaza in a...
Amphibious warship USS Boxer (LHD-4) is underway and has resumed its deployment after an emergency rudder repair, USNI News has learned.
Boxer left San Diego, Calif., on Tuesday, according to ship spotters. Boxer was there after a brief port visit to fuel and crane off an MV-22B that was damaged in a deck-handling mishap, a Navy spokesperson told USNI News.
“Following a successful operational test of its rudders, the...
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/17/uss-boxer-back-on-deployment-after-repairs
The Navy issued HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding a $ 78 million contract modification for quality-of-life improvements that includes building a facility for sailors who are working on aircraft carriers undergoing their mid-life refueling overhaul, according to Naval Sea Systems Command.
The funds are for a “Carrier Refueling Overhaul Workcenter” that...
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and the Russian Navy launched a joint naval exercise on Sunday that will take place in the South China Sea. Also on Sunday, a separate joint naval patrol by the two navies also entered the South China Sea.
Joint Sea 2024 has been an ongoing event since 2012, according to a Russian Ministry of Defense release on the exercise. The MoD added that the first joint naval exercise of the Russian Navy and the...
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/15/joint-chinese-russian-naval-drills-start-in-south-china-sea
The Navy’s Aegis Ashore will play a central role in NATO’s commitment to an integrated air and missile defense, the secretary general announced at the alliance’s Washington summit.
The integrated air and missile defense is part of NATO’s commitment to better meet the challenges, particularly on its eastern front posed by an aggressive Russia across all domains, Jens Stoltenberg said at a press conference last...
These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of July 15, 2024, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship.
Ships Underway
| Total Battle Force | Deployed | Underway |
| 297 (USS 236, USNS 61) | 103 (USS 71, USNS 32) | 76 (49 Deployed, 28 Local) |
In the South China SeaSailors man the rails...
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/15/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-july-15-2024
NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. – The following are photos from the return of aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) from its almost nine-month deployment to the Middle East. The carrier and the embarked Carrier Air Wing 3 returned beginning with the first aircraft arriving at Naval Station Oceana, Va., on Friday. Eisenhower arrived on Sunday.
https://news.usni.org/2024/07/14/usni-news-photo-gallery-uss-dwight-d-eisenhower-is-back