US Navy Accepts Delivery of Future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr.
The U.S. Navy accepted the delivery of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, Nov. 30.
The U.S. Navy accepted the delivery of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, Nov. 30.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78), U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft from Commander, Task Force 67, and the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthal (T-AO 189) began participation in the French-led multilateral maritime exercise Polaris 21 in the Mediterranean Sea, Monday, Â Nov. 22. 2021.
Naval forces from Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and the U.S. unite to conduct multilateral, multinational exercise ANNUALEX in the Philippine Sea, Nov. 21-30.

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21) at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) shipyard Nov. 18.
U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) briefed the head of Jordan’s navy on U.S. 5th Fleet efforts to integrate new unmanned systems…

The U.S. Navy Military Sealift Command (MSC) awards GE Power Conversion an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to maintain the power and propulsion systems aboard its vessels. The contract’s potential worth is $125 million over five years.
For purely hypothetical and speculative analysis discussion purposes, Naval News will explore the possibility of other armed and functional roles for the Large Unmanned Surface

US Navy awards Raytheon Missiles & Defense $20 million contract for Maritime Strike Tomahawk cruise missile Block Va.
U.S. Navy submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40) completed an expeditionary torpedo reload exercise with Los Angeles-class (688i) fast attack submarine USS Hampton (SSN 767).
The CRS’s October 2021 FFG-62 frigate report provided the U.S. Navy’s answer and the deciding evidence on settling for 32 VLS cells per new frigate instead of the suggested 48.