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US sending ammunition, tanker trucks, boats to Ukraine
Latest package includes large amounts of ammunition, such as rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, fuel tanker trucks and riverine boats.
By Lolita C. Baldor
Back to ship: Marines need ships to fight. Will they get them?
Questions loom as to whether existing ship priorities and a new ship design will be funded, floating and fighting in time to keep the Corps relevant.
By Todd South
Iran rejects claim that its speedboats sparked encounter with US vessels in Strait of Hormuz
It was the second time in two weeks that a U.S. ship opened fire to warn vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
Army Corps names 2 new boats for fallen Georgia soldiers
The Army Corps of Engineers dedicated a pair of survey boats for Staff Sgt. Vernon W. Martin and Spc. Christopher J. Holland, two fallen soldiers with local ties to coastal Georgia.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches aircraft-carrying ship
Photos showed the ship carrying truck-launched surface-to-surface missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and four small fast boats.
Navy, Air Force troops train with UAE pilots to thwart fast-boat attacks in the Persian Gulf
U.S. Navy and Air Force troops joined with United Arab Emirates pilots recently to conduct training operations in the southern Persian Gulf. The training included using the expeditionary mobile base Lewis B. Puller as a staging platform to practice tracking and engaging simulated fast-attack craft.
By Harm Venhuizen
Watch: Implications of President Trump’s tweet to ‘shoot down and destroy’ Iranian gunboats
The president’s instructions could carry an array of implications.
By Jon Simkins
Trump tweets that he’s instructed the Navy to ‘destroy’ any Iranian gunboats that harass US warships
“I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” Trump tweeted.
By Shawn Snow
This Nazi sub was sunk when its captain took a dump
Loose lips might sink ships, but expelling bloat can damn a boat.
By Jon Simkins
An unmanned ship that can travel 500 nautical miles without resupply ― the Corps is looking at it
You can put whatever weapon systems “you can dream on it.”
By Shawn Snow
The Corps is looking at unmanned ships for a Pacific fight
Lt. Gen. Eric Smith said the Corps was testing unmanned 11-meter rigid-hull inflatable boats.
By Shawn Snow