![]() The list included five guided-missile cruisers and nine Littoral Combat Ships, according to an administrative release. Instead, it was time to invest more in maintenance facilities, as many ships were inside their service lines, he added. The US Navy called the Congress to run it on a day-to-day basis ships, while cutting down 39 warships was strategically unwise, Hendrix tweeted. Sebastian Bruns, a maritime strategist, retweeted an article shared by retired Navy captain Jerry Hendrix on the US Navy set to decommission more than 30 warships in the next 16 and a half months, or 13.5% of its entire fleet. Sebastian Bruns’s tweet on the US Navy decommissioning warships defense officials said, after relying heavily on aircraft early in Russia’s invasion to get arms to Kyiv as quickly as possible. The Pentagon has expanded its use of maritime shipping to deliver weapons for the war in Ukraine, U.S. The Biden administration approved $12.9bn of military support for Ukraine since the beginning of the invasion on 24 February this year, and also promised an additional $2.98bn of support on Ukraine’s independence day. As a result, they decided to use more sealift to offer their support, the article detailed. Steven Putthoff, the deputy director of operations at the US Transportation Command stated that once the US started providing the Ukrainian army with howitzers, they realised they needed more ammunition. The US Defence Department significantly broadened the initiative via the seas in spring by offering Ukraine with howitzer artillery and other heavy weapons. This move came after the US depended heavily on aircraft to get the arms and ammunition to Kyiv as quickly as possible and during the initial days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the article noted. ![]() Dan Lamothe’s tweet on the Pentagon using seas to deliver weapons to Ukraineĭan Lamothe, a military journalist, shared an article on the Pentagon expanding its use of maritime shipping to send weapons to Ukraine, according to US defence officials. The boat is also expected to have anechoic coatings outside the pressure hull, which is extensively used in Russian submarines. ![]() This involved mounting the machinery on the rafts, to isolate the noise. The angled outer hull is built against active sonar and is expected to be accompanied by outdated passive-sonar stealth. The angled outer casing is similar to the Type-212CD which is built by Germany and Norway, and also by the British Dreadnought class in some ways, the article highlighted. ![]() It also has a chine running on the side that resembled an aircraft, the article further noted. The new boat is called the Arcturus and has a radical design that features an angled outer hull with sloping sides and blended lines. The new ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) represents the next generation after the Borei class and is also an insurance policy against the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) involvement in Ukraine, the article detailed. H I Sutton, a defence analyst, shared an article on the Russian submarine design bureau Rubin unveiling its latest advanced submarine concept, the Arctic. H I Sutton’s tweet on Russia’s new stealth submarine The most popular tweets on naval tech in August 2022: Top five 1. The top tweets are based on total engagements (likes and retweets) received on tweets from more than 180 naval tech experts tracked by GlobalData’s ADS Influencer platform during August 2022. Please check your email to download the Whitepaper.
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