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The Chinese (ballistic missiles) and Russians (ASBMS, cruise missiles and hypervelocity torpedoes) have been serious about defending against the US fleet for a long time. The DF-21D is the latest effort to neutralize US naval superiority. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think the US...

The answer would be 'yes.' Tin cans have always been used in littoral combat to some degree, as they're the smallest and most maneuverable capital ships. That said, there are separate littoral combat ships of a completely different design (with some feature overlap) which are specifically...

They tried for a good long while to get the Sea Shadow into a museum somewhere but nobody wanted the ugly and huge floating 'parking garage' that came with it in a non-dividable deal. USS Nautilus is unusual in being a naval technology prototype that wasn't sent to the breakers later on. So it...

In answer to the various questions posed: The external shape of the ship appears to be optimized to reflect horizontal or nearly horizontal radar beams up into the atmosphere. Salt water is also a pretty good reflector, so reflecting down (as a conventional bow would) is not a good option. If...

The DDG1000 is definitely not your father's destroyer, no matter who your father was. The ship is a floating testbed for all kinds of interesting stuff. I had a very little bit to do with some of the stuff aboard her, so am more than slightly interested to see what succeeds and what doesn't...