“Army boats have not been ready, capable, or in a mindset they’ll have to do something dangerous or in the real world … for decades now,” a retired warrant officer and former chief engineer on Army ...

An autonomous low-profile vessel at the Del Mar Boat Basin at Camp Pendleton, California, February 2024. (Kevin Ray J. Salvador/Marine Corps) (Kevin Ray Salvador) The Army is developing requirements ...

Fewer than half of the U.S. Army’s watercraft are meeting mission readiness requirements. That decline in operational capability comes as the military calls on those ships’ use more and more, ...

It was confirmed on the 23rd that despite the severe aging of Army patrol boats, next year’s budget proposal does not include a single won for securing new patrol boats. Army patrol boats were ...

(CNN) — US Army boats, which carried out the temporary Gaza pier mission earlier this year, are poorly maintained and largely unprepared to meet the military’s growing mission in the Pacific, a new ...