On the latest CavasShips Podcast: a special international naval programs edition with well-traveled naval analysts Xavier Vavasseur of NavalNews.com & Richard Scott incl a deep dive into frigate programs in the UK, France, Japan, Germany & more defaeroreport.com/2026/01/01/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: The entire USNI News gang - Sam LaGrone, Mallory Shelbourne and Heather Mongilio - joins us to look back at key issues fm 2025 and what's to come in 2026. Plus Chris & Chris on the Golden Fleet and the so-called "battleship." defaeroreport.com/2025/12/26/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Ingalls Shipbuilding president Brian Blanchette on how Ingalls will handle the US Navy's new FFX frigate program; navalists Bryan Clark and Brent Sadler take deep dives looking back on 2025 and ahead to 2026. Plus Naval News defaeroreport.com/2025/12/19/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: CNO Caudle speaks with the media at Reagan Def Conf, and USNA History professor CAPT BJ Armstrong traces some of what's changed and what's consistent over the US Navy's 250 years of history. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/12/12/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: a fascinating discussion about US Navy shipbuilding and the fate of the Constellation-class frigate program with former Acting SECNAV Thomas Modly and RDML ret Chuck Goddard, former PEO Ships and Fincantieri executive defaeroreport.com/2025/12/04/d...

Infamy

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: No holiday here as we reconvene to break down the Pentagon/Navy decision to cancel most of the Constellation-class frigate program. No real plan for what's next, nothing in hand for sure. + LINCOLN group deploys, last LCS delivered defaeroreport.com/2025/11/28/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Pentagon/Navy acquisition changes; shipbuilding; ASW anti-submarine warfare. Frmr top Navy acquisition chief Nick Guertin handles all this and more. Plus Naval News of the Week Eastern Shipbuilding's Coast Guard program tanks defaeroreport.com/2025/11/21/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Submarine Deep Dive with frmr CNO & career submariner ret. ADM Jonathan Greenert, who gives his thoughts on sub construction, building Korean subs in the US, AUKUS, the future of unmanned systems. Plus Naval News of the Wk defaeroreport.com/2025/11/14/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: we break down Pentagon Chief Hegseth's 7 Nov acquisition speech - what it calls for, its scope, new or not or different, whether it will work. Plus building ROK nuclear submarines in the US - realistic? And Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/11/07/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: tech innovator & naval thinker Greg Glaros dives into WH & Hill shipbuilding effprts, Navy acquisition, robotics & The Golden Fleet. Plus Naval News of the Week and SECNAV deals a heavy blow to a new Navy museum defaeroreport.com/2025/10/31/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: USNINews' Sam LaGrone and Mallory Shelbourne are with us for the latest on LaGrone's visit to Taiwan, US actions in the Caribbean and Venezuela, and Pentagon press restrictions. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/10/24/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: naval analyst Bryan Clark is back to fill us in on the latest thinking about the US Navy's future force structure, including how unmanned systems and "battleships" fit into the picture. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/10/17/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Salvage expert and frmr SupSalv Gregg Baumann details clearing the containership DALI from the Baltimore Bridge collapse. Plus maritime safety, firefighting, and Navy salvage capabilities. And Naval News of the Week. defaeroreport.com/2025/10/10/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Govt shutdown, Houthi attacks resume, the Shadow Fleet expands, & govt info gets harder & harder to get. Sal Mercogliano and John Konrad are back for a very lively and information-packed discussion. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/10/03/d...

Big week for new Arleigh Burke-class Flight III destroyers: HII Ingalls announced completion of sea trials for TED STEVENS DDG128, the 2nd F3 to be completed for the US Navy, while GDBathIronWorks christened their 1st F3, LOUIS H WILSON JR DDG126, on 27 Sept

SENTRY MCM3 & DEVASTATOR MCM6 last US Navy mine countermeasures ships in 5th Fleet decommissioned 25 Sept at Mina Salman Bahrain. With DEXTROUS MCM13 decom'ed 3 Sept & GLADIATOR MCM11 decom'ed 4 Sept all will be brought to Philadelphia via heavylift ship for disposal

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Analyst Tom Shugart is back with us to dive into the latest Chinese naval technology, tit-for-tat Taiwan Strait transits, and the robustness of Chinese warship construction after 2 ships hit each other. Plus Naval News Of The Week defaeroreport.com/2025/09/19/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: UK shipbuilding is on a roll and Babcock Marine CEO Sir Nick Hine fills us in with details. Plus impressions of this year's DSEI exposition in London and Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/09/12/d...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: new Surface Navy Assoc prez VADMret Ron Boxall on issues facing the Surface Force, incl readiness, unmanned vessel integration & the upcoming Waterfront Conference West in San Diego. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/09/05/d...

Farewell minesweepers USS DEXTROUS MCM13, decommissioned 3 Sept, and GLADIATOR MCM11, decommed 4 Sept, both at Bahrain. Their anti-mine mission in US 5th Fleet has been replaced by newly-arrived littoral combat ships. Tough little ships! closeup views are MCM11

2 Sept 1945 - the formal end of World War 2, 80 years ago today. Japan's surrender documents signed aboard battleship USS MISSOURI BB63 anchored in Sagami Wan, presided over by US Gen MacArthur. "These proceedings are closed."

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: UK RADM ret Jon Pentreath talks UK Defence and NATO & European maritime trends ahead of DSEI 2025 opening in London in mid-Sept. Of special note are reactions to new US political stances. Plus Naval News & Katrina Plus 20 defaeroreport.com/2025/08/29/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: the worldside shadow tanker fleet numbers nearly 2,000 ships - 1/5 the global tanker fleet. Martime intel expert Michelle Wiese Bockmann talks about the dark fleet's strategic & security threats. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/08/22/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: navalist and thinker Brent Sadler is back to talk force structure, shipbuilding, US Navy readiness for conflict and the dustup and collision in the South China Sea. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/08/15/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Bryan Clark joins us to break out Reconciliation Act funding, discuss the state of unmanned surface warfare in the US Navy and talk war gaming & shipbuilding. Plus Naval News of the Week and 80 yrs since a war no one should forget. defaeroreport.com/2025/08/08/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Hanwha is showing off its newly-acquired Philadelphia Shipyard. CEO David Kim details current and future capabilities and investment in PhillyShip, including naval construction. Plus Naval News of the Week and new CNO priorities defaeroreport.com/2025/07/25/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Sal Mercogliano and John Konrad are back as we take on renewed and deadly Houthi attacks on merchant shipping, whatever is going on with the Ships Act and frustration with Coast Guard shipbuilding defaeroreport.com/2025/07/11/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: as production of new ships comes to an end what's next for the US Navy's long-running, still controversial & quite busy LCS littoral combat ship program? Plus Naval News of the Week and some thoughts on this, our 200th podcast! defaeroreport.com/2025/07/03/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Vigor Marine Group is one of the US Navy's top ship repair contractors. CEO Francesco Valente discusses Navy readiness goals, maintenance, and Vigor's influence. Plus Naval News of the Week and a Squawk on leadership defaeroreport.com/2025/06/27/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: NAVSEA's top engineer, RADM Pete Small, talks frankly about shipbuilding, ship repair, the application of 1000s of technical specs and more. Plus Naval News of the Week and a new CNO is nominated defaeroreport.com/2025/06/20/c...

Held hostage in a British harbour and believing their ships about to be turned over to the Allies, German sailors scuttled the magnificent High Seas Fleet in Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919. 52 fighting ships went to the bottom

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: ret RADM Mark Montgomery is back to run thru the Navy's budget, talk current maritime ops and his assessment of Ukraine's chances in the war w/Russia. Plus another busy Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/06/13/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: frmr US Navy top acquisition chief Nickolas Guertin dives into shipbuilding & the shipbuilding culture - and how ships SHOULD be designed. Plus BAE makes a major ship upgrade, and never-ending controversies over ship names defaeroreport.com/2025/06/06/c...

STORIS WAGB21, the US Coast Guard's first icebreaker to enter service since 1999, sailed from Pascagoula MS 3 June after conversion work in Tampa FL. The former commercial AIVIQ was purchased in 2024 as an "interim-capability icebreaker." Will be based at Juneau AK www.news.uscg.mil/Press-Releas...

Shipbuilders HII confirmed the company and the US Coast Guard have agreed to cancel the 11th National Security Cutter due to a contract dispute. FRIEDMAN WMSL760 began construction in May 2021 but little progress had been made. Service now focusing on new Offshore Patrol Cutters. FRIEDMAN would...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Carrier HARRY S TRUMAN's troubled deployment comes to an end; is border patrol a good use for destroyers?; another successful LCS cruise caps off as production nears an end; and more, plus naval news of the week defaeroreport.com/2025/05/30/c...

Not just the great SS UNITED STATES has gone to die in Mobile, Alabama. Venerable ex-USS ENTERPRISE CVN65 will die there as well. Navy awarded a $537 mil contract 30 May to NorthStar Maritime Dismantlement to break up the Big E entirely by Nov 2029. Ship now is in Newport News at HII

All gave some. Some gave all. Don't squander it.

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: analyst Brent Sadler dives deep into maritime construction in the US - SAWS, block buys, infrastructure complexities and costs, then reviews US Navy actions in the Red Sea and Pacific. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/05/23/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: the view from Europe. Veteran naval correspondents Xavier Vavasseur and Richard Scott with fascinating details about the recent and current French and UK carrier deployments, NATO activities, ship maintenance and AsiaIMDEX defaeroreport.com/2025/05/17/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Special Operations Force week in Tampa and Modern Day Marine in DC - on-the-ground reports from both with Jason Salata and Byron Callan. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/05/09/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: busy busy week! The Ships Act, the Reconciliation Bill, new submarines, shakeup at the NSC, and an expensive US Navy fighter rolls off an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea. USNI's Sam LaGrone joins us. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/05/02/c...

Sailors aboard carrier HARRY S TRUMAN CVN75 on 28 April lost control of a VFA-136 F/A-18E Super Hornet while towing it on the hangar deck and the aircraft and tractor went over the side into the Red Sea. One sailor suffered minor injury, none lost news.usni.org/2025/04/28/s...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Rebuilding the US merchant marine and commercial shipping industry has landed on the nation's to-do list. Noted analyst Steve Wills helms a new book on how to get it all back and he joins us. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/04/25/c...

USS TOLEDO SSN769 returned to the fleet 19 April after an extended overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. The Los Angeles-class #submarine had been at the shipyard since Jan 2021 (!). That's D D EISENHOWER CVN69 at left in the 1st photo www.dvidshub.net/news/495750/...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Bryan Clark is back with us to dish on Golden Dome, shipbuilding, unmanned vessels, Saronic's shipyard proposal, LSMs and more. Plus Naval News of the Week defaeroreport.com/2025/04/18/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: Servello & Cavas with some thoughts and impressions of the recent SeaAirSpace 2025 exposition - what was there, what wasn't there - plus early thoughts on the White House's EO on the shipbuilding and maritime industry defaeroreport.com/2025/04/11/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: keeping the Navy’s ships in fighting trim is all about sequencing maintenance correctly. Retired flag officer Robb Chadwick explains how thoughtful maintenance planning can make all the difference. Plus Naval News defaeroreport.com/2025/04/04/c...

On the latest CavasShips Podcast: the services have to cut $50 bil to be reinvested elsewhere in DoD - but what to cut and where do the $$$ go? Longtime budget guru Todd Harrison oversaw an exercise to game it out - and the unofficial winner was...the Navy defaeroreport.com/2025/03/28/c...