Austal’s Australian Centers Can Now Bid for U.S. Navy Support Contract

The Maritime Executive 1h   //  keep unread  //  hide Austal’s shipyards and service centers in Australia have been approved to bid for and provide support services, including ship repairs, maintenance and sustainment activity, for United States Navy and Military Sealift Command ships.  With the Agreement of Boat Repair now in place, Austal’s Australian operations can now bid to provideContinue reading “Austal’s Australian Centers Can Now Bid for U.S. Navy Support Contract”

USS Fitzgerald Returns to Sea After Repairs Caused by Fatal 2017 Collision

2KUSNI Newsby Sam LaGrone / 6h   //  keep unread  //  hide USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) departs Huntington Ingalls Industries – Ingalls Shipbuilding’s Pascagoula shipyard to conduct comprehensive at-sea testing on Feb. 3, 2020. US Navy Photo After more than two years of repairs, guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) left the Mississippi coast for sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico, Navy officials announcedContinue reading “USS Fitzgerald Returns to Sea After Repairs Caused by Fatal 2017 Collision”

The Days After D-Day: What Happened Next

WWII D-Day was just the start… the Battle of Normandy soon followed. 17th June 2019 at 9:37am Moving 156,000 men from one country to another in 24 hours is an impressive feat by any military standards. It’s also an historically and militarily significant figure, for this was the amount of Allied soldiers who had managedContinue reading “The Days After D-Day: What Happened Next”