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Popular Mechanics
March 2009
Erik Sofge |
Behind the Scenes With a Special Ops Gunboat Crew When the US Special Forces need safe passage along a river, they call on the best-trained boatmen in the world. The author tags along on a live-fire exercise with the elite gunboat crews of Special Boat Team 22.   |
National Defense
April 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Brown-Water Navy Begins Hunt for New Riverine Combat Craft Some time after 2010, the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command plans to buy a new small boat that will be tailored to specific Navy needs. |
National Defense
April 2013
Dan Parsons |
Small Boats Mean Big Business for Shipbuilders Big ships -- aircraft carriers, destroyers, submarines -- get all the glory, but it is the Navy's smallest vessels that could prove pivotal in future conflicts. |
National Defense
November 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Navy Receives First New Patrol Boat The Navy is moving forward to refresh its patrol boat fleet, which hasn't been updated since the 1980s. Safe Boats International in August delivered the first of 10 new MK VI boats to the service. |
National Defense
August 2007
Grace Jean |
Littoral Combat Ship Troubles: Opportunity for Small Boat Companies? With the cost of the Navy's littoral combat ship skyrocketing and its funding in peril, some say the sea service ought to give serious consideration to acquiring cheaper boats that could complement a reduced fleet. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Small Boats on the Front Lines of Maritime Security As the profile of the U.S. Coast Guard's homeland security mission rises, the role of small boat operations is becoming central to the effort. |
National Defense
April 2015
Edward Lundquist |
Coastal Patrol Boats Boost Naval Presence A little more than a decade ago, the U.S. Navy's coastal patrol boats were destined to be decommissioned. But after 9/11, the Navy came to realize that the small PCs could fill a big gap. |
National Defense
August 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Aiming for Laser Weapons at Sea The Navy expects to incorporate lasers onto most ship classes in its surface fleet, including amphibious ships, cruisers and destroyers. |
National Defense
November 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Coast Guard Expands Joint Anti-Terrorism Training The U.S. Coast Guard is preparing to break ground this month on a new $33 million facility that will significantly improve its ability to train military personnel in maritime security tactics. |
National Defense
September 2006
Lawrence P. Farrell |
In the Navy, Research Sails Forward Like the other military services, the Navy is undergoing a transformation in its war-fighting concepts, tactics and strategy. For the Navy, this means turning more attention to littoral areas and preparing to conduct a broad array of unconventional anti-terrorism operations. |
National Defense
February 2005
Bill Daniels & DiRenzo |
Maritime Anti-Terrorism at the Crossroads Of National Security and Homeland Defense At issue is how do the homeland defense and homeland security duties contribute to enhanced protection of national assets in the territorial seas of the United States. |
National Defense
June 2006
David Axe |
Navy's Smallest Fighting Ships Prove Littoral Warfare Concepts The Navy's smallest fighting ships -- 180-ft Cyclone-class patrol boats -- are blazing the way for a future fleet of littoral combat ships. |
National Defense
December 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Sailors Move From Classrooms To Shipboard Simulators The U.S. Navy will be plowing millions of dollars into new simulators that will be used aboard ships, rather than ashore, to help sailors acquire specialized skills before they depart on a mission |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
April 2009 |
Navy Adopts Concurrent Tools for Aviation Training Binghamton Simulator will provide Naval Air Systems Command with the Aircrew Virtual Environment Trainer (AVET) to train Navy airmen. |
National Defense
August 2010
Grace V. Jean |
More Airmen Joining Air Force Special Operations Command The squadron in charge of training Air Force Special Operations Command gunship crews is adapting training methods to accommodate increasing numbers of newly winged airmen. |
National Defense
March 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Underway with the USCG Mellon While helicopter operations are familiar to U.S. Coast Guard vessels, more than just guns are added to the equation when they are armed |
National Defense
May 2007
Grace Jean |
Recruits Virtually Experience the High-Tech Navy With sophisticated warships poised to enter its fleet during the next several years, the Navy is relying more and more on technology to train sailors. |
National Defense
October 2006
Robert H. Williams |
Submersible Boat Gains Speed The Multi-role Intermediate Support Craft, made by Stidd Systems Inc., is a submersible boat that can travel at speeds up to 30 knots on the surface. It can be outfitted with a .50 caliber machine gun, MK-19 40 mm grenade launcher and other weapons systems. |
National Defense
January 2011 |
McInerney Receives Gold Medal Upon Retirement The National Defense Industrial Association presented its highest award for achievement, the NDIA Gold Medal, to Vice President of Membership and Chapters retired Air Force Maj. Gen. James E. McInerney Jr. |
National Defense
July 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Submarine Crews Will Learn Navigation, Mariner Skills in Simulators The Navy is looking to buy a virtual submarine bridge trainer to teach crews navigation and mariner skills. |
National Defense
February 2010
Jean & Wright |
Laser "Fizzles" IEDs, Rendering Them Harmless Boeing researchers have demonstrated that the company's laser weapon system can destroy improvised explosive devices while mounted to a combat vehicle. |
National Defense
November 2014
Valerie Insinna |
Shipbuilders Bet on Radical Hull Designs to Defeat Swarming Boat Threat There is a need for a highly, highly stabilized craft that are not large, that are smaller, that can be used to patrol and defend the Navy's ships while they're in troubled waters against high-speed boats. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2009
John Keller |
Military laser weapon research aims at defending U.S. Navy ships at sea U.S. Navy researchers are asking two U.S. defense contractors to develop military laser prototypes of a future laser weapon of megawatt power to defend warships at sea from future maritime threats. |
National Defense
December 2007
Grace Jean |
Marine Corps Orders New Convoy Simulators The Marine Corps has purchased simulators that will teach crews how to handle dangerous situations while driving in urban war zones. |
National Defense
September 2011
Eric Beidel |
Lasers to Aid Machine Guns Aboard Ships Sailors soon may have a new weapon to use on the high seas, one that combines the precision of directed energy with the lethal power of a machine gun. |
National Defense
April 2011 |
Association Briefs The National Defense Industrial Association offers news from a new Cyber Division, the Tennessee Valley Chapter and the Homeland Security Division |
National Defense
April 2008
Sandra I. Erwin |
As the Cost of Sailors Rises, Navy Finds Ways to Get Them Off Ships Navy ships in the future may go to sea with fewer, but perhaps happier sailors. |
National Defense
April 2004
Tyrone Taylor & Ben Stone |
Small Business Division Reviews First Year The National Defense Industrial Association refocused its efforts to represent the interests of its small business members by creating the Small Business Division. Its mission is to focus specifically on issues affecting small business defense contractors. |
Boating
Kevin Falvey |
War Babies Want a boat built to military specs? No problem -- except for the rocket launchers. |
National Defense
June 2013
Dan Parsons |
Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder? The U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid off, as the Navy is set to deploy the first laser small enough to fit on a ship. |
Popular Mechanics
July 14, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Top 5 High-Tech Guns for Next-Gen Infantry Reviews of five new weapons technologies are provided |
National Defense
November 2006
Sandra I. Erwin |
Naval Officials Seek `Intellectual Renaissance' in the Sea Services As they continue to ponder the value of naval forces in the nation's wars, Navy leaders want to broaden the debate by encouraging participation from all levels of command. |
National Defense
February 2007
Robert H. Williams |
PC Tank Simulator Sharpens Lethal Skills A PC-based simulator is now allowing soldiers in Israel to conduct high fidelity exercises in their tanks. |
America's Civil War
Glenn F. Williams |
Uncle Sam's Webfeet Organization and training were essential to coordinate the activities of the hundreds of men who crewed a Union man-of-war. |
