Marine Corps Aviation: Modernizing Before the Storm
Marine Corps aviation is getting new strike fighters, medium-lift tilt-rotors, attack and utility helicopters, and turboprop tanker-transports in advance of …
Naval Forces
U.S. Navy Missile Defense: The Tipping Point for Ballistic Missile Defense
The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States provided a dramatic warning that even the “world’s hegemon,” as America …
Project Manager Towed Artillery Systems Gains an Expanded Portfolio
Reminiscent of how recent program growth has brought strength and synergies to the PEO Land Systems structure, the former lightweight …
Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar (G/ATOR) and Ground-Based Air Defense (GBADS)
As with many other offices within the Program Executive Officer Land Systems Marine Corps, the Program Management (PM) office for …
Seventy Years of the Seabees: Interview With Rear Adm. Mark A. Handley
Only weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. Navy decided that the combat use of …
Marine Corps PEO Land Systems: Advanced Amphibious Assault
In his 2012 “Report to Congress on the Posture of the United States Marine Corps,” Commandant of the Marine Corps …
Tide-class Tankers Will Support Royal Navy Ships Around the World
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary’s new class of tanker will be known as the Tide class, drawing upon a name associated …
U.S. Marine Corps Unmanned Systems Expand and Evolve
From the early days of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Marine Corps has been one of the most ardent …
The Royal Navy’s New Type 26 Frigate
The Royal Navy’s new class of frigate, the Type 26, will be capable and flexible. With a common hull that …
The Marine Corps of 2030
A s the smallest of the nation’s uniformed military services, the Marine Corps is most susceptible to tight budgets, but …