The Hidden Cost of 109 Deployed Ships
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report 109 Ships Deployed: How Long Can the U.S. Navy Sustain a Global Surge Before Maintenance Becomes the Enemy? On October 5, 109 of the U.S. Navy’s 286 battle-force ships were...
₹6.615 Billion for the Launchers, Not the Missiles: Is BrahMos Becoming India’s Standard Naval Strike Architecture?
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report India Is Buying the Launchers Behind BrahMos India has signed another BrahMos contract, but this one does not principally buy missiles. It buys the shipboard machinery required to control and...
80 Rockets, Four Modules: Can France Build a Naval Drone Defense That Actually Scales?
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report Can Warships Afford the Drone War? France’s Rampart Launcher Tests a Different Answer A French amphibious assault ship has fired Naval Group’s Rampart close-in weapon system at sea for the...
Four Frigates, First Steel Already Cut: How Fast Can Europe Actually Rebuild Its Surface Fleets?
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report Steel in 31 Days: Can Europe Turn Hot Frigate Lines Into Real Fleet Growth? Sweden signed for four FDI frigates on August 31. Naval Group began cutting steel for HMS...
The Cruiser Era Is Ending: Can Arleigh Burkes Carry the Air-Defense Load?
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report Two Cruisers Retire in One Week: Can Destroyers Absorb the Ticonderoga Fleet’s Mission Load? USS Lake Erie and USS Shiloh left the fleet five days apart. Together they took 244...
Build 10 at HII, 10 at Saronic, 10 at Galliano: Is Distributed Shipbuilding Finally the Answer to Naval Production?
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report The Navy’s Bet on Distributed Shipbuilding Galliano Marine Services, HII and Saronic Technologies have each received production agreements for 10 Medium Unmanned Surface Vessels. Production is beginning in Louisiana, with...
A Deeper Look at 30 Drone Ships, Three Shipyards and $1.2 Billion Dollars
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report Can the Navy Finally Mass-Produce Autonomous Warships? The Navy has spent years proving that unmanned ships can cross oceans and operate with minimal human control. The next test is different:...
Britain Is Buying Three Floating Submarine Docks: Why Naval Maintenance Capacity Is Becoming a Strategic Weapon
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report You Can Build More Submarines, But Can You Maintain Them? Britain’s Three-Dock Gamble Britain is preparing to build three floating docks at HM Naval Base Clyde for nuclear submarines. The...
The $200 Billion Shipyard Problem: Can the U.S. Navy Rebuild Its Yards Before the Fleet Outgrows Them?
ShipUniverse Naval Decision Report Growth and Capacity Collide The Navy is trying to enlarge and modernize its nuclear-powered fleet while simultaneously rebuilding the four government shipyards that keep its submarines and aircraft carriers available...
Everyone Wants Thousands of Naval Drones. Who Builds, Fuels and Fixes Them?
Autonomous Fleet Sustainment Building the Support Network for the Robot Fleet The autonomous fleet stops being a software problem the moment hundreds of vessels need hulls, fuel, filters, engines, repair bays, spare parts and...
What Happens When the Navy Loses One Drydock for a Year
Drydock Shock Test Take One Naval Drydock Offline for a Year. Watch the Fleet Backlog Spread. Losing one dock does not simply delay the ship scheduled to use it. In a repair network already...
The Submarine Arrives for Maintenance and the Drydock Isn’t Ready. Watch the Delay Cascade.
Maintenance Queue Simulation How a 30 Day Drydock Slip Becomes a Fleet Problem A missed drydock date does not necessarily create one delayed submarine. If the next maintenance slots are tightly sequenced, the delay...
The Navy Doesn’t Just Need More Ships. It Needs Somewhere to Repair Them.
Naval Repair Network The Repair Network Behind a Larger Navy A larger fleet creates another requirement behind every new hull: drydock time, waterfront space, skilled labor, spare parts and a repair network close enough...
Does a $15M Laser Actually Reduce the Cost of Defending a Warship?
Naval Cost Exchange The Real Economics of Putting Lasers on Warships A laser shot can cost almost nothing. The laser itself does not. The useful question is how many missile engagements the system must...
The Navy’s Real Bottleneck May Be the Drydock
Naval Industrial Capacity The Fleet Is Only as Ready as Its Shipyards Fleet plans count ships. Readiness depends on something less visible: how quickly those ships can move through drydocks, repair berths, work packages...
Reverse Engineering the World’s Newest Autonomous Warship
Reverse Engineered Saronic’s 180-foot Marauder exposes surprisingly little of its internal engineering. But its published speed, payload and range numbers are enough to put boundaries around the machinery, fuel volume and mission architecture hiding...
Naval Radar Retrofit Outlook 2027: Where SPY-6 and Next-Generation AESA Upgrades Are Creating Supplier Demand
Naval radar retrofit outlook 2027 Where SPY-6 and Next-Generation AESA Upgrades Are Creating Supplier Demand The interesting part of a modern naval radar retrofit is not the antenna sitting on top of the ship....
30 Days With No Mechanic: The New Propulsion Standard for Unmanned Naval Ships
Naval propulsion and unmanned vessel report 30 Days With No Mechanic: The New Propulsion Standard for Unmanned Naval Ships The glossy part of an unmanned ship is the autonomy screen. The part that decides...
The Autonomous Navy Supply Chain: 25 Technologies Needed to Build an Uncrewed Fleet
Autonomous navy supply-chain report The Autonomous Navy Supply Chain: 25 Technologies Needed to Build an Uncrewed Fleet An uncrewed fleet is not bought by ordering a few drone boats and hoping the software catches...
Inside a Modern SIGINT Ship: 10 Systems Driving the New Naval Intelligence-Vessel Market
Naval intelligence-vessel supplier report Inside a Modern SIGINT Ship: 10 Systems Driving the New Naval Intelligence-Vessel Market Germany’s fourth signals-intelligence ship plan is a reminder that the most valuable equipment on an intelligence vessel...