We need to talk about the Fitzgerald: The Drift Vol XVII It is difficult to say the main factors that caused the collision between Fitzgerald and the ACX Crystal are anything but clear. By: David B. Larter February 9
Double your Ford class, double your fun: The Drift, Vol. XVI The Navy decided, in a most inconsiderate way, to throw a wrench into my plans to write about dynamic force employment, 2nd Fleet and the changes to the Navy’s command-and-control structure. By: David B. Larter January 31
Surface Navy Deleted Scenes & The NeverEnding Mission: The Drift XV For this edition of The Drift, I want to circle back to some things that I haven’t written up yet from my pre-Surface Navy Association interview with Rear Adm. Boxall, who was incredibly generous with his time, and cover some ground I haven’t made publicly available yet. By: David B. Larter January 24
Hit the Slides! The Latest from the Surface Navy: The Drift XIV I’ve cued up Metallica’s shredtastic debut album Kill ‘Em All in my earbuds and take you on a quick tour of U.S. warships and programs under construction and in development. I hope that by the time The Four Horsemen get to the end of Metal Militia, I’ll have finished weaving my weekly tale here at The Drift. By: David B. Larter January 17
Oh me! What will become of Flight III DDG?: The Drift XIII Bryan Clark, the retired submariner and brilliant naval analyst with the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, has been saying for months now that there was a shift happening in the surface force toward more passive sensors, and that the DDG Flight III may not be best suited for that new model. By: David B. Larter January 10
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