First Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) Begins Construction
The U.S. Navy recently laid the keel for the mobile landing platform (MLP), a new class of ship designed to …
Surface Ships
Hog Smoke, Osprey Ops, and Dog Tired Marines | Military Photos
Periodically we’ll be sharing favorite military photos we’ve come across in putting together our various publications and the DMN website. …
Surface Navy Association Symposium 2012
With the ink barely dry on a new national defense strategy, senior naval officers, government officials, and members of private …
Sequestration and ‘Toxic Political Environment’ on Capitol Hill Could Hurt Defense, Senator Says
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), called for continued construction of multi-mission surface combatants during an address to the Surface Navy Association, …
New Littoral Combat Ship Coronado Christened at Alabama’s Austal Shipyard
The Navy christened the littoral combat ship Coronado (LCS 4) , on Jan. 14, 2012, in a ceremony at Austal …
Navy Rescues 13 Iranian Sailors from Somali Pirates
The head of Iran’s military said that Iranian ships had “chased” a U.S. aircraft carrier from the Persian Gulf, and …
The Year’s Best Military Photos
Throughout 2011 we posted weekly slide shows of favorite military photos we’d come across in putting together our various publications …
The Collapse of Empires
In December 1941, it was as if Hachiman, the Japanese god of warriors and protector of Japan, had straddled the …
Utah Was the “Not So Famous” Battleship Sunk During the Pearl Harbor Attack
As we mark the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought the United States into World War …
Pearl Harbor: Preparations for War
In January 1941, Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commander of Japan’s Combined Fleet, used brush, ink, rice paper, and the rich flourish …